Sentences with phrase «brain than other primates»

Furthermore, chimpanzees, like humans, also have a larger and more gyrified brain than other primates species.

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1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

«What we found is that weaning time — which acts as a measure of the prematurity of the infants — was a much better predictor of primate's intelligence than any of other measures we looked at, including brain size, which is commonly correlated with intelligence,» said Piantadosi.

Our brains produce far more dopamine in these regions than the brains of other primates like apes.

But, relative to body size, primates have much larger brains than any other animals, and we humans, not surprisingly, have the biggest brains of all — about six times larger than you would expect for a mammal of our size.

Humans have more brain neurons than any other primate — about 86 billion, on average, compared with about 33 billion neurons in gorillas and 28 billion in chimpanzees.

But in the brain, the team detected much more gene expression in humans than in chimps, whereas gene expression in the brains of chimps and the other primates was about the same.

The heightened bustle is most dramatic in the brain, where its pace has picked up much faster in humans than in other primates.

Previous reports have argued that the genes that regulate brain development and function evolved much more rapidly in humans than in nonhuman primates and other mammals because of natural selection processes unique to the human lineage.

When calibrated against the genomic average, brain genes in humans evolved more slowly than in other primates, which were slower than mice.

A new study has found that fruit consuming primates have bigger brains than other species.