Hirata and colleagues Tomoko Sakai and Hideko Takeshita now find that human and chimp brains begin to show remarkable differences very early in life. In both primate species, the brain grows increasingly fast in the womb initially. After 22 weeks of gestation, brain growth in chimpanzees starts to l
Date: Sep 25, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Brain Develops Longer in Womb for Humans Than Chimps
"Elucidating these differences in the developmental patterns of brain structure between humans and great apes will provide important clues to understand the remarkable enlargement of the modern human brain and humans' sophisticated behavior," study co-author Tomoko Sakai said in the news release.