Saturday, February 23, 2013

Has Evolution Given Humans Unique Brain Structures?

Our ancestors evolutionarily split from those of rhesus monkeys about 25 million years ago. Since then, brain areas have been added, have disappeared or have changed in function. This raises the question, 'Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?'. Scientists have entertained the idea before but conclusive evidence was lacking. By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks.

MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222120753.htm