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Monday, July 12, 2010

Human Evolution Recapped in Kids' Brain Growth

Human Evolution Recapped in Kids' Brain Growth: For a quick summary of the last 25 million years in human brain evolution, just watch how our brains change between infancy and adulthood. Over its first few decades, the human cerebral cortex — the brain's wrinkled outer tissue — evolves in ways that parallel its evolution since we last shared a common ancestor with macaque monkeys.




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