Sentences with phrase «larger than the brains»

Researchers knew that Neanderthal brains reached full size between the ages of 6 and 8 years and that they were about 10 percent larger than the brains of modern humans.

As a result, the embryos carrying human HARE5 have brains that are 12 % larger than the brains of mice carrying the chimp version of the enhancer.

In her popular science book The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press: March 2016), Herculano - Houzel explains how human brains grew so large, even larger than the brains of gorillas and orangutans, whose bodies are larger than ours.

Not exact matches

I ride longer distances on my bike, can do more pull - ups than ever, and my brain seems to have a larger capacity for new projects, problem solving, songwriting, and fielding random questions.

And are the brains of innovative individuals structurally or functionally different from other people's — that is, are they larger than average, do their synapses operate differently, or is their wiring denser or perhaps more sparse but faster?

The guts from the guppies were also found to be 20 percent smaller in larger - brained guppies and they had 19 percent less offspring than their smaller brained counterparts.

It is true, our brains are about three times larger than would be expected for a primate of our size.

He spells out the neuroscientific view of our brains as a dynamic network of 100 billion neurons capable of 100 trillion different connections — a number larger than that of the elementary particles in the universe.

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.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

Perhaps, as Gould suggests, nothing that our large brain has allowed us to learn has proved more frightening and weighty in importance than awareness of death.

Players do have a brain afterall and what Wenger does is encourage them to use it rather than just instruct them like most other managers do, now when it all comes together, we go a whole season unbeaten, when it fails, we go a decade without a trophy all in it is why a large number of former Wenger students and players have gone on to greater things within and beyond football, Even Guardiola took a chunk of his coaching badges under Wenger even after playing under Fergie just before hanging up his boots, Viera went on to a senior role at Man.

She also found the left brain ventricle to be larger than the other.

If his head circumference is much larger than average, he'll be further evaluated to make sure he doesn't have excess fluid in the brain, a condition called hydrocephalus.

The preemies who experienced skin - to - skin had higher IQs, significantly larger areas of gray matter in the brain, and even earned higher wages at their jobs than those who did not experience skin - to - skin care.

He wrote more than 100 books on physics, mathematics and astronomy, among other fields, and is believed to be the first to explain how our brains create the illusion of the moon appearing larger near the horizon.

Although she acknowledges that the relationship between intelligence and neuron count has not yet been firmly established, Herculano - Houzel and her colleagues argue that avian brains with the same or greater forebrain neuron counts than primates with much larger brains can potentially provide the birds with much higher «cognitive power» per pound than mammals.

With a large number of electrode channels distributed across the scalp, this method also detects which brain regions show more slow - wave activity than others.

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

Subtle refinements in brain architecture, rather than large - scale alterations, make us smarter than other animals

But how did the human brain get larger than that of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, if almost all of our genes are the same?

He notes, for instance, that the TI stimulated patches several millimeters across in the rodent's brains — far larger than the precise spots targeted by implanted electrodes.

Both age groups showed a larger P3a component — a brain wave indicating attentional processing — for feedback on high - confidence errors than for feedback on low - confidence errors.

The results showed that even though this hominid's brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's, it most likely walked upright like modern humans.

Our brains are roughly 25 percent larger than those of the late Homo erectus.

Strikingly, despite the overall tendency for male brains to be larger, 10 of these regions had more modulatory neurons in females than in males.

Their analysis of more than 4,000 individual tumor cells, the largest effort to date in brain tumors, finds three developmental categories of cancer cells — one resembling neural stem cells and two characterized by sets of genes indicting paths towards differentiation.

Anatomy confirms what behavior reveals: Octopuses and cuttlefish have larger brains, relative to body weight, than most fish and reptiles, larger on average than any animals save birds and mammals.

Boskop's brain size is about 30 percent larger than our own — that is, a 1,750 - cc brain to our average of 1,350 cc.

The Boskop skull, it would seem, housed a brain perhaps 25 percent or more larger than our own.

Despite having a brain only slightly larger than a chimpanzee's, H. naledi displays key humanlike neural features, two anthropologists reported April 20 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

Fossil remains and anatomical reconstructions indicate that the typical Neandertal had a stocky muscular body with short forearms and legs, a large head with bony brow ridges and a brain slightly larger than ours, a jutting face with a large nose, and perhaps reddish hair and fair skin.

Latin for «tough body,» this mass of more than 200 million nerve fibers helps connect the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum, our brain's largest and uppermost section.

2 - whether certain emotions are recognized more quickly through vocalizations than others and produce larger brain responses; and

«One of the things that the presence of large - scale science infrastructure does is that it increases the skills pool, and helps Africa to have something we have not seen on the continent in some time, and that is a brain gain rather than a brain drain,» she said.

Golden retrievers, for example, have many more nerve cells than cats, and brown bears have an unexpectedly low number of nerve cells given the relatively large size of their brain.

Yet H. habilis» brain was only moderately larger than Australopithecus», and its body retained many apelike features.

This and subsequent similar experiments used guinea pig brains because they're larger and easier to work with than mouse brains.

The two sides of the brain were exposed to the same mix of hormones during development, yet the song circuit was much larger on the male side of the creature's brain than on the female side.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

«Small molecules are much easier to make than larger compounds, they are easier to get into cells and their potential for getting into the brain is higher,» he said.

Men's brains are bigger than women's — about 100 grams heavier on average — even when their larger proportional size is factored into the equation.

While previous scaling laws predicted that humans» brains would be more resilient to blasts than animals», Radovitzky's team found the opposite: that in fact, humans are much more vulnerable, as they have thinner skulls to protect much larger brains.

Nowhere is this more true than in the brain, where blood vessel walls are tightly knit, keeping most large molecules from seeping out of the bloodstream and into brain tissue.

Although they are no larger than house cats, tamarins have brains that are surprisingly big for their size and a family life organized like our own.

«Women have more active brains than men: Largest functional brain imaging study to date identifies specific brain differences between women and men, according to a new report in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.»

At two and a half, the autistic subjects» brains were 7 percent larger on average than the control group's.

Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision - making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to a large correlational study of adolescents from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

A powerful X-ray tomography scanner allowed the researchers to image particularly thick sections of the brains of mice, which afforded them views into intact neural areas much larger than are customary in microscope imaging.

It seems unbelievable, but on average Neanderthals actually had larger brains than modern humans.