Human, Neanderthal brains only differ after birth

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/November/international_November446.xml§ion=international

(AFP)

9 November 2010, WASHINGTON — The brains of Neanderthals and humans were similar at birth but developed differently in the first year of life, according to a German study published Monday in the United States.

Brains of newborn human babies and Neanderthals, who became extinct about 28,000 years ago, were about the same size and appear almost identical at first, said the research which appeared in the journal Current Biology.

But after birth and particularly during the first year of life the differences in development are stark, said lead author Phillipp Gunz of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.

“There was a huge difference in the way they grew their brain compared to modern humans in the first one-and-a-half and two years,” Gunz told AFP.

[cliffordu]

1. KInd of explains the difference between the baggers and the rest of us.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. lol...

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Annie Murphy Paul on Fetal Origins

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/nov/08/annie-murphy-paul-fetal-origins/

Journalist Annie Murphy Paul discusses the new field of fetal origins—which looks into how the conditions we encountered while developing in the womb before birth influence our health, intelligence, and temperament. In Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, she interviews experts from around the world and explores the history of ideas and the latest scientific discoveries.

[dimbear]

4. Since Neanderthals were humans, they don't differ. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. All non-africans have some Neanderthal DNA.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100506141555.htm