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Having A Big Brain Is Just Plain Nutty.

  • 02-07-2009 4:01pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭ Galvasean


    The discovery of a 54 million year old primate skull looks set to challenge long accepted ideas about why our brains are so large.
    By scanning a 54-million-year-old skull roughly the size of a walnut, scientists have created the first virtual 3-D model of an early primate brain, a new study says.

    Surprisingly, the model suggests that primates (such as lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans, among others) might have evolved larger brains as a result of the need to move quickly from tree to tree—not, as commonly assumed, to hunt for fruit or navigate within a single tree

    Full article here:
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090630-tiny-skull-big-brains.html

    I find it mad that this little critter(Ignacius graybullianus)'s brain is roughly teh size of a Stegosaurus'.
    090630-tiny-skull-big-brains_big.jpg
    Photograph by Eric Zamora of the University of Florida


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭ Linguo


    Very interesting..this section of boards (which I have only started checking out today) is really gonna be detrimental to my work output!


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