Sentences with phrase «of big brains»
Animals with high cognitive ability also have relatively large brains, but the factors that drive evolution of big brains remain unclear.
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In the world of big brains, humans have very few competitors.
«It certainly gives you a different perspective on the advantage of a big brain,» he says.
«The big brain needs fuel, so we would guess that the changes to metabolism enabled the evolution of a big brain,» he explained.
- A high metabolic rate and other changes to energy usage in the body likely preceded the evolution of big brains in animals.
One of the biggest brain boosts for moms is the ability to see the world through someone else's eyes.
A meat diet fuelled the development of our big brain, but what happened when it ran short?
Competing theories seek to explain the value of a big brain.
in 1995 Leslie Aiello, then of University College London, and Peter Wheeler of Liverpool John Moores University offered the first possible reason for the rarity of big brains.
Once the human and chimp genomes were deciphered about a decade ago, they realized they could now begin to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of our big brain, bipedalism, varied diet, and other traits that have made our species so successful.
Michael Drivas, owner of Big Brain Comics in Minneapolis, has seen many start - ups crash and burn.
Sadly for the Sunshine State's high - tech ambitions, patent cases filed in South Florida rarely pit innovator against innovator in battle of the big brains.
Eating meat may have kick - started the evolution of bigger brains, but cooked starchy foods together with more salivary amylase genes made us smarter still.
Some of the biggest brains in physics can't figure it out either.
New work on primates bolsters the idea that diet — rather than social complexity — was key to evolution of our big brains, says chimp expert Richard Wrangham
He suspects that diet allowed, rather than drove, the evolution of big brains.
Stem cell guidelines from on high, geoengineering on the cheap, how genetic engineering could have created a new model organism, and the evolution of big brains.
An examination of cetacean brain structure with a novel hypothesis correlating thermogenesis to the evolution of a big brain.
Many anthropologists think that living in large social groups drove the evolution of bigger brains, but new findings call that into question