Sentences with phrase «very large brains»

The dating of this species is significant, in that a date earlier than habilis makes this species the first habiline, and with its very large brain, a candidate for being a direct human ancestor.

Neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington's disease affect very large brain areas.

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And just as (to use a very coarse figure) the stubs remain in a check - book whenever a check is used, to register the transaction, so these impressions on the transcendent self might constitute so many vouchers of the finite experiences of which the brain had been the mediator; and ultimately they might form that collection within the larger self of memories of our earthly passage, which is all that, since Locke's day, the continuance of our personal identity beyond the grave has by psychology been recognized to mean.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

You've seen a very large number positioned after a currency symbol along with a player's name that sends your brain waves into ga - ga overdrive.

Babies generally double their birth weight by about six months of age, and their brains grow very rapidly, both of which require a large intake of calories.

Therefore New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).

Yanik's lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood - brain barrier — a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs or other large molecules to enter the brain through the bloodstream.

Our study tells us that a large proportion of these changes may occur during very short and repetitive brain waves called spindles.

«We were very curious to see what would happen if we were to change the expression pattern of Pax6 in developing mouse brain to mimic that observed in large - brained animals,» says Fong Kuan Wong, a PhD student in the lab of Wieland Huttner and first author of the study.

The fossil record shows that bipedalism is very ancient, predating tool - making and the evolution of large brains that were once seen as the most fundamental biological adaptations of humankind.

The parts of the brain that provide the wiring for where these large appendages arise are very large in this fossil.

«That's a very large number of decisions to make, and our brains have difficulty solving that complex of a problem.

«Our research looked a very large population of U.S. veterans who had experienced either mild, moderate or severe traumatic brain injury in an effort to find an answer to whether a mild traumatic brain injury can put someone at risk.»

The history of large brains has, very roughly, the shape of a letter Y.

Consequently, these grafts may be used to deliver very large drugs, including proteins, which would otherwise be blocked by the blood - brain barrier.

If the other features are far away, then the brain interprets the rainbow as a very large object.

«These markers need to be further studied in a larger group of CTE cases, but they could be very important in determining whether an individual is at greater risk of developing these brain changes,» Bieniek says.

1470's face is very robust, and as large as that of a modern Cro - Magnon skull, despite a much smaller brain size, and the cranium has a markedly different shape.

Very little is known about the large - scale brain networks that may underlie the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of FXS.To identify large - scale, resting - state networks in FXS that differ from control individuals matched on age, IQ, and severity of behavioral and cognitive symptoms.Cross - sectional, in vivo neuroimaging study conducted in an academic medical center.

Moreover, unlike modern humans with low brain sizes, these skulls are very robust, with flattened braincases and large brow ridges.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

Thus, the endocrine system is crucial for our survival and health, and, because many crucial hormones are secreted in the brain, and our brain activity and response to external stimuli can affect hormone release, your mind and your environment are very important to the health of the individual at large.

I believe there is a large central — i.e., brain - related — component to this, and for some people it can be very effective.»

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

You need very little Vitamin C to survive; however, you can store and use large amounts of Vitamin C. Your body requires it to produce stable collagen or else your skin falls apart; your brain uses it to control prolactin and produce catecholons like dopamine and norepinephrine; and Vitamin C can convert blood - plasma lead and mercury to lead ascorbate and mercury ascorbate, allowing the liver to ship them into bile and clear them from your body.

In this issue, we decided to pick John's oversized brain (no really, he does have an abnormally large head) to get his thoughts on a very important topic - Post Workout Nutrition.

Except a dog's brain is roughly equivalent to that of a two year old child's, and chances are your dog weighs less than 100 pounds, which means it's like you're giving alcohol to a very large toddler.

Dog surgery rarely cures the disease, but removing the dog brain tumor can be life saving if it is very large.

W. Tecumseh Fitch's 2010 book «The Evolution of Language» explains that, in general, larger animals have larger brains — you couldn't very well encase a humpback whale's 10 - pound brain in your skull.

Dogs have a very small «thinking brain» but a very large «reaction brain.»

Therefore, if the animal has a very large mass, it is preferable to surgically remove as much of it as possible first, thus decompressing the brain and enabling the animal to survive the course of radiation.

The sad fact is that large truck accidents often involve very serious injuries, such as spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and permanent disablement, or even death.

Water intoxication is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions wherein someone has consumed so much water that their electrolytes are thrown dangerously out of balance; outside of extreme instances like water - drinking contests or drinking large amounts of water while exercising for long periods of time, water intoxication is very rare.