Sentences with phrase «require bigger brains»

That is, primates that move around in bigger and more complex social groups require bigger brains in order to efficiently manage all of those social relations.

One idea, championed by psychologist Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford, is that complicated social lives require big brains (pdf).

The find is likely to «squash the sacred cow» that this sort of behaviour requires a big brain, he says.

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The biggest problem I have with American recipes is some ingredients here in Perth, Western Australia, don't exist so I have to rack my brain to think what I could buy that with the closest to what's required.

Goadsby doesn't know yet if the brain cells involved are bigger than those in normal patients or if there are simply more of them; that would require the dissection of a brain.

The big drawback to optogenetics is that it requires surgically implanting optical fibers in the brain.

Humans diverged from their closest relatives, chimpanzees, about 5 to 7 million years ago and the transition required a host of nutrients that were particularly beneficial to developing bigger brains.

In Baxter's practice, she finds that her patients respond better - they get a bigger mood boost - if they do exercises that require them to use their brain rather than let it run on auto pilot.

Maybe after 100 attempts I get a smarter chimp with a bigger brain... but with deformed external features like cleft palate and spine abnormalities, internal biochemical and immune abnormalities that require, for instance, constant use of antibiotics, etc..

A Bigger Splash is the sort of movie which normally would come and go without me ever knowing it even existed (aka highly acclaimed, with a plot requiring more than several brain cells to comprehend).

And despite seven speeds, both Big Willow and the return down Angeles Forest Highway require third gear, maybe fourth — like a great American once drilled into our brains, just set it and forget it.

Angie had a couple of serious fractures for which surgery had been required, she lost a spleen, there was a collapsed lung and she had a titanium rod in a femur, but the big issue was the head injury — there had been an impressive laceration on the back of her head and while there was no open fracture, her brain began to swell and the neurosurgeon implanted a shunt to drain the edema.

It's inspired by how the human brain works, but requires high - end machines with discrete add - in graphics cards capable of crunching numbers, and enormous amounts of «big» data.