Our brains are more like birds' than we thought

Sunday, July 4, 2010 - 22:21 in Biology & Nature

For more than a century, neuroscientists believed that the brains of humans and other mammals differed from the brains of other animals, such as birds (and so were presumably better). Researchers have now found that a comparable region in the brains of chickens concerned with analyzing auditory inputs is constructed similarly to that of mammals.

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