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Article: Humans and dolphins: if brain size is a measure, we're not that different.
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- October 28, 2004
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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 October 2004-US NSF: Humans and dolphins: if brain size is a measure, we're not that different(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Arlington, Va. - Scientists have determined how brain size changed in dolphins and their relatives over the past 47 million years, and how these species evolved in relation to humans. The results of their research, published on-line this week in the journal The Anatomical Record, show that, in terms of brain size, humans and dolphins aren't that different.
Lead scientist on the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project is Lori Marino of Emory University in Atlanta; colleagues ...