Human Brains “Evolve,” Become Less Monkey-Like With Age
Publication: National Geographic News Date: July 12, 2010 View ArticleBrain regions that grow the most outside the womb are the same areas that expanded the most during evolution from monkeys to humans, a new study says.
As the human brain matures, it expands in a “strikingly nonuniform” fashion, according to researchers who compared MRI scans of 12 infant brains with scans of 12 young adult brains.
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