Newts aren't doing a lot of Facebook friending, and last time I checked, the cormorant had not updated its relationship status. But a new neural analysis suggests that our social networking tendencies most likely have their neural roots in some of our early vertebrate ancestors. The findings were published online May 31 in Science.
MORE: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/05/31/brains-social-network-formula-dates-back-hundreds-of-millions-of-years/
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Evolution of Birds Is Result of a Drastic Change in How Dinosaurs Developed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120530212105.htm
