Sentences with phrase «modern chimpanzee brains»
Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.
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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.
The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger, more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.
Named Rudapithecus (the discovery was made near the village of Rudabánya, and pithecus is from the Greek for «ape»), the animal had a body and brain about the same size as those of a modern chimpanzee.