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- Plasticity may be what underlies the specific differences in our brain that lead to our unique cognitive abilities. A study published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that human brains may be less genetically inheritable, and therefore more plastic, than those of chimpanzees, our closest ancestors.
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Aug 29, 2022 · They found that different brain regions use different strategies to interact with each other. This combination of complementary information between different sources is known as ‘synergy’ and may explain why the human brain is smarter than our primate ancestors.
Jan 26, 2020 · The rate of blood flow to the brain appears to have increased over time in all primate lineages. But in the hominin lineage, it increased much more quickly than in other primates.
Dec 4, 2023 · Human brains are bigger than those of our primate relatives, but evidence from extinct human ancestors suggests brain size isn't everything. To understand human intelligence,...
Aug 1, 2008 · But, anatomically, the human brain is very similar to that of other primates because humans and chimpanzees share an ancestor that walked the earth less than seven million years ago.
Mar 24, 2017 · We found that the size of the carotid canals increased much faster than expected from brain size in 12 species of our human ancestors over a period of 3 million years.
May 8, 2017 · How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need to know more about the intelligence of our human ancestors who lived 1.8 million years ago.
May 27, 2022 · We found that synergistic interactions account for a higher proportion of total information flow in the human brain than in the brains of macaque monkeys.
