Sentences with phrase «grow big brains»

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.

Human milk is formulated by nature to grow big brains — using fats — which human milk contains a lot of.

In the years since the 2013 debut of human brain organoids, research groups have worked to grow bigger brain tissue clumps and more uniform structures.

Once early hominins had boosted their metabolism and grown bigger brains, he says, natural selection would have favored not only fatter individuals, but also smaller guts and other energy - saving adaptations, such as cooking and efficient walking.

Growing Bigger Brains: Research Affects How Teachers Teach To enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research, Congress designated the 1990s as the Decade of the Brain.

This in fact is why we grew big brains enabling left - wingers to be wrong about a vast variety of subjects.

Not exact matches

On a purely secular view, humans are simply the accidental by - products of natural selection, monkeys who by chance grew brains too big for their own good.

Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay rates and less unpleasant lives than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the current week.

After reading David Epstein's essay about Junior Seau and brain trauma (SCORECARD), I was left wondering if players and coaches are paying attention to the growing research that suggests that the combination of big - impact hits and constant smaller hits to the head play a major part in the trauma to a player's brain?

Although they are mainly just growing bigger and stronger now, there are some key elements of their development going on as the nerves in their brain which control the senses are still forming, eventually enabling them to smell, see, hear, taste and touch.

They are born with brains about half the size they'll eventually grow to, on average with 50 % of their adult brain whereas human baby's brains are only about 25 % as big as human adults» brains.

Previously, neuroanatomists thought that as brains grew larger neurons had to grow bigger as well because they had to connect over longer distances.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

That is necessary if the organoids are to grow bigger, probably the only way they can mimic fully grown brains and show how disorders such as autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia unfold.

The sea slug Aplysia californica, a red, green or brown hermaphrodite that can grow up to 16 inches long, has the biggest brain cells, or neurons, in the animal kingdom, at up to a millimeter long.

Its brain also grew about three times bigger.

When the researchers added oligosaccharides purified from whey to the Malawian diets of mice with microbes from a severely malnourished infant, the mice grew more muscle, bigger bones, and had quite «dramatic changes» in brain and liver metabolism, Gordon says.

The new results indicate that as brains grew larger and entered the world in a less developed state, it became increasingly advantageous to relax the genetic control of their organization, essentially providing a bigger, blanker canvas for adapting and learning.

Under those specifications, the hypothetical human brain grew as big as ancient humans» brains are thought to have grown, and the slow growth rate matched that of modern human brains.

When the brain gets bigger after delivery, all that is happening is that the individual neurons are growing and sprouting branches.

Paleoanthropologist Robert Martin of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, agrees that the new paper does «provide the first evidence that metabolic limitations» from a raw food diet impose a limit on how big a primate's brain — or body — can grow.

Mammals» brains grew ever bigger relative to their bodies as they struggled to survive in a world dominated by dinosaurs.

SOMETIME in the distant past our ancestors» brains grew sophisticated enough to ponder life's big questions.

What's more, we need extra time for our large brains to grow — they are half as big again as those of the earliest humans, Homo erectus, who appeared some 2 million years ago.

Primate brains tend to pack in lots of neurons without growing bigger.)

The brains of these genetically modified mice grew 12 percent bigger than ones given the chimpanzee version of HARE5.

According to the study, the researchers» genetic analysis supports previous findings that people carrying autism genes tend to be intelligent, as well as findings about common traits between autism and high IQs — bigger brains that grow faster, better sensory and visual - spatial capabilities, and improved decision - making, to name a few.

Brain cells can form new connections and grow bigger, so we can make new memories and learn new skills at every age.

I actually hadn't thought of this, but I was fairly confident that in the aftermath of the economic crisis the brain trust at TD and the other four big banks — along with an ever - growing number of smaller players — would put quite a bit of research into a fund before releasing it.

London - headquartered Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies, with hit microtransaction - powered titles such as Who Has The Biggest Brain?

It is built on research showing that negativity makes a big impact on the brain, and that unless they take steps to counteract instances of negativity, couples grow apart emotionally.

Negativity just makes a bigger impact on the brain, and unless we take steps to counteract it, slights will accumulate, continually accelerating the likelihood that partners will grow apart emotionally.