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by ktkhuu | Jun 12, 2019 | News
SciShow Hosted by: Stefan Chin Transcript:I don’t like to brag, but I’ve got a pretty big brain.And so do you.Compared to gorillas and orangutans — apes that are about our size — our brains arethree times as massive.That extra size is likely a big part of what lets us...
by ktkhuu | Jun 12, 2019 | News
New genes arose in human ancestors just before a dramatic increase in brain size and are involved in genetic defects associated with neurological disorders May 31, 2018 By Tim Stephens | UCSC A set of three nearly identical genes found only in humans appear to play a...
by ktkhuu | Jun 11, 2019 | News
How humans got their brains May 31, 2018 The Economist “HOW the human got his brain” is probably the most important “Just So” story that Rudyard Kipling never wrote. Kipling did not ignore people in his quirky take on evolution. Two of his tales describe the invention...
by ktkhuu | Jun 11, 2019 | News
May 31, 2018By Elizabeth Pennisi | Science Three nearly identical genes could help explain how 0.5 liters of gray matter in early human ancestors became the 1.4-liter organ that has made our species so successful and distinctive. The newly identified genes could also...
by ktkhuu | Jun 11, 2019 | News
Three genes that appeared during our early evolution probably increased the number of neurons in our heads—but at a cost. May 31, 2018 By: Ed Yong | The Atlantic It started with some blobs of brain-like tissue, growing in a dish.Frank Jacobs, then at the University of...
by ktkhuu | Jun 11, 2019 | News
May 31, 2018 Summary Three brain development genes are found only in humans and may have helped drive the rapid expansion of the brain starting roughly three million years ago. A newly discovered set of genes could help explain how humans diverged from other apes....
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