Sentences with phrase «such big brains»

- The similarities could help to explain why cetaceans, humans, non-human primates and elephants all have such big brains along with complex cognition.

New research on the related individuals, however, began with different, yet no less important, questions: How was Neanderthal physiological development different from that of modern humans, and how and why did Neanderthals evolve such big brains?

But how do we manage to build such big brains?

Is that a fitting project for such a big brain?

Not exact matches

He has become a regular at big - brain forums, such as the TED conference, where his message blends Al Gore's grim factual ballast with vaulting entrepreneurial can - do - ism.

In one experiment, researchers gave participants memorable trivia, such as «an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain,» then showed them computer folders with mundane names where the trivia was stored.

Measuring brain waves, of course, isn't such a big deal.

Such subtleties, and I don't think it is very subtle, are easily overlooked when your brain is going a million miles per hour trying to rationalize the bigger problems of religion in general.

What if we want to stand up to him, and say, look, buddy, you made us with great big questioning brains, and so we used our brains to question your existence because you did such a crappy job with that dumb book you call the bible trying to convince people you exist.

Using god for science is wrong.Materials be came present after the big bang as atoms.Eventually processes started which created rock.Our planet came together with many materials, such as gold, platinum and others.When a rainforest dies when it dries up, gets buried and compresses to form coal.Oil is made from sea organisms that die and get buried.The brain uses algorithms to process information.God does not need to be included.

These Matcha Doughnuts were such a big hit with our staff during the testing process that we had to pick associate food editor Claire Saffitz's brain.

TINY body, big problem: minuscule spiders need fairly sophisticated brains to weave their webs, but how do you cram that circuitry into such an itsy bitsy body?

Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.

Dagdeviren has big plans for the brain implant, and she is developing ideas for piezoelectric - based devices that harvest energy from outside the body, such as from the motions of knees and elbows.

Moreover, such smarts arise in long - lived animals: Extended childhoods and parental instruction enable them to learn, and longevity justifies the investment in big brains.

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.

Big - brained females were eaten about 13 per cent less often than small - brained ones though there was no such link in males, whose bright colours may counter any benefits of higher intelligence (Ecology Letters, doi.org/4p9).

Later studies have honed in on traits such as bipedality, culture, language, humor, and, of course, a big brain as the unique birthright of our species.

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

Elephants and whales have bigger brains, so comparing anatomy or even genomes of humans and other animals reveals little about the genetic and developmental changes that sent our brains down such a different path.

Grafman, an affable, gentle man with large eyes, is using his scanners to peek into brains as they wrestle with big questions such as politics and religion.

Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

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.

Such a network, akin to the type of big, expensive facilities historically built for physicists and astronomers by governments, was first mooted 3 years ago, when Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York, and five colleagues drafted the proposal for what would ultimately become President Obama's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) InitiaBrain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) InitiaBRAIN) Initiative.

Losing such a big portion of their guts could have allowed our ancestors to compensate for much of the brain's extra energy demand.

He and colleagues have for years looked at the differences between big - brained birds, such as crows and parrots, and those with smaller brains, such as chickens and quails.

Using props and examples from the fossil record, the scientists showed how the very adaptations that have made humans so successful — such as upright walking and our big, complex brains — have been the result of constant remodeling of an ancient ape body plan that was originally used for life in the trees.

In a study involving healthy older adults, Basak said, the biggest gains in brain function associated with video game training affected executive functions, such as working memory and the brain - organizing skills known as inhibitory abilities, and global cognition.

But there really isn't such a debate: Most anthropologists agree that the big - brained Neandertals had some hefty cognitive capabilities.

Though successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of scientists and administrators the best way to develop something as basic as a new understanding of the human brain?

«It's amazing that something we now take for granted, cooking, was such a transformational technology which gave us the big brains that have made us the only species to study ourselves and to generate knowledge that transcends what was observed firsthand; to tamper with itself, fixing imperfections with the likes of glasses, implants and surgery and thus changing the odds of natural selection; and to modify its environment so extensively (for better and for worse), extending its habitat to improbable locations.»

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

MAZMANIAN: Another big question is whether we can treat brain disorders, such as autism, by aiming therapies at the gut.

«Hypertasters have such a strong response to food that they get a robust signalling that switches off their appetite whereas non-tasters may have to work harder to stop eating because they might not get that big signal to the brain telling them they are full,» says Roura.

That's such a big number our human brains can't really comprehend it.

This doesn't seem like such a big deal until you have a life experience that you can not wrap your brain around.

Eat diverse food and apply rules such as using a smaller plate to fool your brain and think you eat more food than when you use a bigger plate.

Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain.

You see with lower hormone levels we are more prone to problems such as osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, loss of collagen, heart attacks and a big one for me is the negative impact on brain health.

Not just a medication addiction, I think — I think people using pain medication, because — because addiction is just such a big thing now, and a lot of it has to do with the but — you know, the — the — you know, the neurotransmitters and brain being s — so out of whack for — for all sorts of reason.

Wilson's big and bulky play (reportedly trimmed considerably by Tony Kushner, who gets a co-producer credit) owes much to the family dysfunction classics of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, but it also has notes of heightened allegory that fall flat, such as the recurring character of Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson), Troy's brain - damaged brother who keeps barging into the action to utter deranged prophecies.

Team 17 Announces E3 Lineup Team 17, the UK's longest running independent label and brains behind such hits as Worms, is hitting the E3 showroom floor in a big way.

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?

Such is the case, too, with the movement to stop the commercial slaughter of the biggest animals, with the biggest brains, who have ever lived on the planet: the many species of whales that swim the world's oceans.

The BIG difference between hare - brained geo - engineering schemes, such as those you mentioned and burning fossil fuels to provide accessible low - cost energy and transportation to drive the world economy, is that the geo - engineering schemes are costly but DO NOT ADD INHERENT VALUE.

It's such a big difference that when I'm moving between rooms, my brain's automatic color balance has to work overtime to keep up.

There's a story I recall about some famous and brilliant mathematician — perhaps Norbert Wiener — who rarely took his nose out of a book and who didn't like to waste time: he would read while walking to and from the classroom (or perhaps his office) but have his arm out such that with a small part of his (very big) brain he could count the doorframes as they were ticked off against his hand; at the right count, his wrist would stiffen, and with his arm as a lever, rotate himself into the room still reading.

Their brain can't yet stay calm when they have big feelings such as frustration, anger or disappointment.