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Evolutionary origins of the nervous system

Category: Evolutionary Biology

A number of recent studies provide clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system

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The evolution of manual dexterity

Category: Neuroscience

The unique capabilities of the human hand enable us to perform extremely fine movements, such as those needed to write or to thread a needle. The emergence of these capabilities was undoubtedly essential in human evolution: a combination of individually...

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Who's a clever boy then?

Category: Animal Behaviour

Self-recognition was long believed to be unique to humans. However, it was established more than 30 years ago that the great apes are capable of recognizing themselves in the mirror, and more recently it has been found that dolphins and...

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Nematodes see without eyes

Category: Animal Behaviour

The humble nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a millimeter-long roundworm which eeks out its existence in the soil and feeds on bacteria. Because it lives in a dark environment, and lacks specialized light-sensing organs, the nematode has always been assumed to...

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An overview of corticogenesis

Category: Neuroscience

The winners of the first Kavli Prize were announced a couple of weeks ago. One of the three recipients of the prize for neuroscience was Pasko Rakic, a professor of neurobiology and neurology at the Yale School of Medicine.Rakic has...

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Synapse proteomics & brain evolution

Category: Neuroscience

When it comes to human brain evolution, it is often said that size matters. The human cerebral cortex is much larger than that of other primates, and therefore its expansion must have been a vital feature of human evolution. Researchers...

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70 million amazing rare things

Category: Evolutionary Biology

One of the events organized for Bora's visit to London was a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of the Darwin Centre, a newly built section of the Natural History Museum which houses the museum's researchers and contains a vast collection of...

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Imaging language evolution

Category: Neuroscience

A comparative neuroimaging study performed by researchers from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Oxford, provides clues to how human language evolved.In the past, it was believed that the increase in brain size...

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Tune in to the evolution of music & sociability

Category: Evolutionary Biology

Yesterday's Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 was program about the evolution of music, by Ivan Hewitt. It isn't available online yet, but should be uploaded onto the Sunday Feature page soon, and will remain there for a week.The progam...

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Earliest land vertebrates had a colourful view

Category: Evolutionary Biology

Some 365 million years ago, during the early Devonian period, the Sarcopterygian (or lobe-finned) fish emerged from the sea and gave rise to the first terrestrial tetrapods. During the course of their evolution, the tetrapods became adapted to life...

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