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Adult Human Brain

From birth to adulthood the human brain expands by a volume factor of 3.3, compared with 2.5 in chimpanzees DeSilva J and Lesnik J (2006).

Original image file: Figure 1. Comparison of a Human and a Chimpanzee Brain Scale bar = 1 cm

(Image: Todd Preuss, Yerkes Primate Research Center)


Reference

Bradbury J. (2005). Molecular insights into human brain evolution. PLoS Biol. , 3, e50. PMID: 15760271 DOI.

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© 2005 Jane Bradbury. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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