Aging Brains Are Different in Humans and Chimpanzees

Aging Brains Are Different in Humans and Chimpanzees
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:39:00 -0500

Brains shrink in humans, potentially causing a number of health problems and mental illnesses as people age, but do they shrink to the same extent in the closest living relatives to humans--the chimpanzees?

New research says no, making the extreme amount of brain shrinkage resulting from normal aging in humans unique.

Chet Sherwood, an anthropologist at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a team of scientists from seven other U.S. universities put forward ...

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