Brain Comparison (IMAGE)
Caption
Roughly three million years ago, human brains began to expand. Today, the human neocortex is larger than that of an orangutan, gorilla, or chimpanzee, our closest living primate relative. Scale bar equals 5 centimeters.
Credit
I. Fiddes et al./Cell 2018. Gary Mantalas took the photos of skulls that were provided by Richard Baldwin of the Anthropology Department at UCSC.
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