Sentences with phrase «understand brain evolution»
A decade ago, the lead author on the new study, Masato Yoshizawa, wanted to understand brain evolution by investigating the effects of natural selection on behavior.
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Among other uses, oVert will «open new doors» for understanding brain evolution in hard - to - find species, predicts Kara Yopak of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, the neuroanatomy adviser to the project.
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your brain is relatvely soo simple and therefore its comprehension is also very limited, you believe in evolution so religion itself is an evolutionary process.Even atheism also evolved, The arguments today is just part of the evolutionary process of change through dialectecal methods.The moment humans begin to understand and appreciate the dialectics then the solution to the problems argued is near.
Feeling joy when thinking abstract thoughts about God — that might not be positvely or negatively selected for since it doesn't affect your kids, but there is emerging evidence that it is a side effect of the way our brain is wired to process information, which itself is a product of evolution and will require picking up that neuroscience text to understand.
It's clear that it is YOU that does not understand evolution, and what's worse is that you are passing this misinformation to your children and poisoning their brains against progress.
For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.
Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution.
This relationship between unlearned calls and an area of the brain responsible for learned vocalisations is important for understanding the evolution of song learning in songbirds.
Describing himself as a «neuro - ethologist,» Brockmann hopes that the comparative studies on three species native to India — A. cerana, A. dorsata, and A. florea — will help him understand the evolution of dance communication and identify the changes in the brain that accompanied the changes in behavior.
«This is a helpful first step that builds off of other important previous work and is a natural step in the evolution of our understanding of fibromyalgia as a brain disorder» said López - Solà.
Cosmic evolution, the structure of matter, the origins of life, and understanding how the brain works all deserve strengthened support, according to China's latest 5 - year development plan, which could triple funding for basic research by 2020.
It is a known phenomenon and one of many that we do not yet fully understand but which may be telling us as much about learning and evolution of the brain as about how we forget.
«If we're going to understand the evolution of the brain and of intelligence, we have to look across the gamut of species,» says Anna Wilkinson of the University of Lincoln in the U.K..
«They help us to understand how the FOXP2 gene might have been important in the evolution of the human brain and direct us towards neural mechanisms that play a role in speech and language acquisition.»
«Understanding the basis of mental synthesis can shed light on the evolution of the brain in general and on the evolution of language in particular,» the authors point out.
«Comparing human, chimpanzee and bonobo cells can give us clues to understand biological processes, such as infection, diseases, brain evolution, adaptation or genetic diversity,» says senior research associate Iñigo Narvaiza, who led the study with senior staff scientist Carol Marchetto at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.
The find also has implications for understanding the evolution of the human brain.
«This new timeline has significant implications in helping us to understand this period of human evolution — cooked food provides greater energy, and cooking may be linked to the rapid increases in brain size that occurred from 800,000 years ago onwards.
Some of the genes may be important in understanding the genetics behind disease as well as the evolution of the human brain.
Understanding the link between brain evolution and cognition is a challenge, however, because it is impossible to observe the brain activity of extinct humans.
Aside from better understanding neurological damage that occurs in a percentage of people susceptible to breast cancers, the new work also helps to better understand the evolution of the brain.
«Looking at these early stages in development is the best opportunity to understand our brain's evolution.»
To enhance the utility of chimpanzees as a reference species for comparative studies to better understand the structure, function, and evolution of the human brain
Chimpanzees are among the closest living relatives of humans, making them a key species to study in order to understand the evolution of the human brain.
The images produced by their work will provide a clearer understanding of how even the smallest changes to the brain play a role in the onset and evolution of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's and autism, and perhaps lead to improved treatments or even a cure.
These different areas form, I believe, building - blocks that contribute to our understanding of how our remarkable nervous system makes us do all the things we enjoy - and sometimes those that we would prefer not to - and occasionally make wise decisions... something that our brains, however, could be better at [and where there is] room for further biological evolution.
After taking a class on positive psychology, a.k.a. «Happiness 101» in early 2008, I came to the understanding that the practice of yoga asanas, or movement with breath, is actually an incredible way to reprogram the brain and in turn, to promote personal evolution.
Rooted in a deepening understanding of how brain architecture is shaped by the interactive effects of both genetic predisposition and environmental influence, and how its developing circuitry affects a lifetime of learning, behavior, and health, advances in the biological sciences underscore the foundational importance of the early years and support an EBD framework for understanding the evolution of human health and disease across the life span.