A study finds that more social animals
evolve bigger brains.
But females may
evolve bigger brains to help them escape overeager mates with these longer organs.
In the wild, other apes can't
evolve bigger brains unless they reduce their body sizes because they can't get past the limit of how many calories they can consume in 7 hours to 8 hours of feeding per day.
New remains plug a 20 - million - year gap in the fossil record and suggest T. rex
evolved a big brain as the first step to becoming apex predator
In addition, if these small - brained Sima fossils are indeed ancestral only to Neandertals, then our cousins must have
evolved their big brains independently from us.
But scientists disagree on what drove primates to
evolve big brains in the first place.
We mostly likely
evolved a big brain because of the high quality nutrition offered by meat.
Not exact matches
consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the
big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us humans because of the biological nature of our existence we
evolve fastest and our
brains has attained the highest level of complexity
People often say our
brains are so
big because of how
evolved we are, but I say our
brains are so
big because we messed it all up and now we need the space to sort it all out.
Americans sure love their
big book of fairy tales... seems like we are stuck with
brain dead followers of myths for some time to come... oh well... one day, humanity may
evolve beyond the bronze age...
«Because dolphins have also
evolved large
brains, it gives us an example of the independent evolution of
big, complex
brains to compare to the evolution of the human
brain,» says Stewart.
The discovery sheds light on how
bigger human
brains might have
evolved
A new study indicates that these insects didn't grow
big brains to cope with social living; they
evolved them millions of years earlier when they were solitary parasites.
Although the fossil record is incomplete, we have more than enough to see that, in broad terms, our
big -
brained, long - limbed, built - for - distance - walking species
evolved from arboreal ancestors with smaller
brains, larger teeth and broader chests.
They are very
evolved humans, their
brains was
big as ours and in some cases even
bigger than the modern average.
He adds that the mechanism could help explain how New World monkeys, with their small, smooth
brains, could have
evolved from an ancestor with a
bigger and more folded
brain.
«The origins of the genus Homo are murky, but by H. erectus,
bigger brains and bodies had
evolved that, along with larger foraging ranges, would have increased the daily energetic requirements of hominins.
New research on the related individuals, however, began with different, yet no less important, questions: How was Neanderthal physiological development different from that of modern humans, and how and why did Neanderthals
evolve such
big brains?
Community living, hunting in groups, survival in harsh environments — these adaptations helped us live and reproduce and they unquestionably demanded
bigger brains, so we
evolved to meet the challenge.
Bit by bit, thus, an active, strong, heroic, compactly graceful and clever dog was
evolved — the earliest true form of the Airedale.He is swift, formidable, graceful,
big of
brain, an ideal chum and guard.