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Scientists find clue to human brain evolution in finger length: Study
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of the index and ring fingers, a marker of prenatal exposure to oestrogen and testosterone, researchers found that higher
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Study provide insights into healthy brain aging
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Indigenous people that live among the tropical forests of lowland Bolivia have some of the lowest rates of heart and brain disease ever recorded by science. There are optimum levels of food consumption and exercise that promote healthy brain ageing and lower the risk of disease, according to
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525-million-year-old fossil contradicts textbook theory of brain evolution
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous syste
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Study reveals brain evolution association with competition
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Texas [US], October 20 (ANI): Trinidadian killifish grow larger brains in response to a high-competition environment, enhancing their fitness and survival rates, according to a recent study.
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Study discovers brain evolution of lungfishes
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Adelaide [Australia], July 20 (ANI): With the help of research on ancient lungfish fossils, which filled in a gap in the history of land-living, four-legged creatures on earth, the evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been rewinded by more than 400 million years.
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Scientists find evolutionary changes in human brain as potential reason of
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): While there are extensive reasons for the development of anxiety disorders in the human body, a new study has focussed on a different perspective behind occurring of anxiety disorders.
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Study suggests evolutionary changes in human brain potentially cause anxie
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. (USA), Dec 26 (ANI): Evolutionary changes in the human brain are the potential cause of anxiety, new research has found.
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Here’s how the brain evolved
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 13 (ANI): Don’t we all, at some point or the other, wonder where does our ‘humanness’ come from?
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