Earliest Brain Found!
When did brains appear in the animal kingdom? New evidence suggest very early in the Cambrian period in little creatures called...
Silent Synapses and Brain Plasticity
In Chapter 10 we talk about the remarkable plasticity of the human brain, having twice as many neurons (86 billion!) as a chimpanzee....
Earliest known cooked meals
While researchers contend that Homo ergaster was an early form of Homo erectus who roamed Africa 1.9 million years ago and appear to be...
Rats bop their heads to rhythm!
The list of non-human animals that can keep a beat just got a little longer! Researchers at the University of Tokyo detected rats boping...