This is Your Brain on… Bacon?!?

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I couldn’t resist sharing with you a piece from NPR’s health blog called “Why Bacon Is a Gateway Meat for Vegetarians.” And it involves the brain… so read on! According to Johan Lundstrom from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, bacon has a very fundamental appeal for humans. First, Lundstrom explains that the high fat and [...]

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Posted January 31, 2011 by Sharon Delman under Memory, Neuroscience, Research studies

Neanderthal Brains, Human Brains

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There’s a lot of debate around the similarities and differences between humans and Neanderthals. Were Neanderthals truly a different species from humans, or a different type of the same species? Were they adaptive, cultural innovators like humans, or were they just the dumb cavemen often depicted? Their brains were big like ours… but did they [...]

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Posted November 9, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Evolution of the Brain, Research studies