The Science of Salt Lake City Continued…
My trip in Salt Lake City, Utah, continues this week and I have more photos to share, exploring reptilian, dinosaur, and mammalian evolutions. Following our trip to the Natural History […]
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Specific Genetic Enhancers May Have Contributed to Larger Brains in Humans
Though humans don’t have the largest and most complex brains of the mammals (those distinctions go to the sperm whale and the elephant, respectively), the complexity of our language and […]
BRAINS, BRAINS, BRAINS!!! Evolution of the Human and Mammalian Brain
Why is the brain so fascinating? As far as humans go, even though paleoanthropologists consider “bipedalism” to be the earliest characteristic which made the line of Homo unique, we all […]
Thinking with Your Nose – How Mammalian Cortex Expansion Shares Links with Enlargement of the Olfactory Bulbs
If you’ve ever seen a dog follow a trail by scent, you’ll have gotten a glimpse of the importance of olfaction in mammals. Some scientists have postulated that while the […]
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