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Lab-grown mini ‘brains’ of humans and apes reveal why one got so much bigger – Livescience.com

Using lab-grown mini-brains, scientists have figured out why humans have bigger brains than those of apes.

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Using lab-grown mini-brains, scientists have figured out why humans have bigger brains than those of apes.
About 5 million to 8 million years ago, humans and apes
diverged from a common ancestor. Some time after that, humans started evolving to have larger brains; now human brains
are about three times bigger than the brains of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. 
If you ask “what’s special about our brains,” compared with other apes, the most obvious answer is size, said lead author Silvia…

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