Birdbrain Doesn't Equal Stupid, Scientists Argue
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Birds are not stupid and their brains are not primitive so it is about time the scientific world gave them full credit, experts said on Monday.
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Is it possible to outrun evolution? Two new lizard-behavior studies look at why it's not always just the fittest that survive.
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New research provides more evidence that chimpanzee brains are human-like in terms of the links between brain asymmetry, language and right- or left-handedness.
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Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Sometimes really smart people say really dumb things. Here's a case in point.
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BOSTON -- They proudly call themselves &quot;idiots,&quot; and the thing with idiots, you see, is they don&#39;t often think rationally.
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In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls. These are not outcasts from &quot;The Island of Dr.
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NEW YORK  - People who see colorful "auras"  in response to people or words may simply have a brain  condition, not psychic powers, according to a new research  report.
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A new scientific study claims that genes controlling the size and complexity of the brain have evolved more rapidly in humans than they have in any other species - including apes.
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While crows have a reputation for being clever birds, research now suggests they could be as intelligent as great apes.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Turning specific cells on and off in fly brains can help researchers understand how individual parts of a complex system affect the whole animal.
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A University of Chicago study sheds light on why intelligence in humans evolved more rapidly than in other animals. &#39;Humans evolved their cognitive abilities not due to a few accidental mutations, but rather
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The sophistication of the human brain is not simply the result of steady evolution, according to new research. Instead, humans are truly privileged animals with brains that have developed in a type of extraordinarily
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Biologists are turning up evidence that humans are not, physically or even mentally, in a class by themselves.
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Not all penguin stories are equal in the public's mind.
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NEW YORK  - While neither men nor women may  be the more intelligent sex, their brains may take different  paths to reach the same intellectual level, according to one  team of researchers.