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Date Time Flexible brains make for right fit Being squeezable may be the key to finding space for the brain in mammals, including humans, according to new research. An international study, co-led by Flinders University’s Dr Vera Weisbecker, has revealed that marsupial mammals like possums, kangaroos, and wombats appear to have a lot of flexibility when it comes to accommodating their brains into their skulls. “The brain is one of the heaviest parts of the head, particularly in smaller mammals. But it needs to be placed in a way that doesn’t interfere with the many vital functions of the...

Have you ever seenmagpies play-fighting with one another, or rolling around in high spirits? Or an apostlebird running at full speed with a stick in its beak, chased by a troop of other apostlebirds? Well, such play behaviour may be associated with a larger brain and a longer life. For the past 50 years, international animal cognition research has often related the use of tools such as rocks and sticks to cognitive abilities in animals. But my research on Australian native birds, published in Scientific Reports, casts doubt on long-held assumptions about the links between large brains and too...

Affects a person's life lie logically. the experts say that boys and girls, all genders are along. the boy's brain, the male brain might be larger. the female's language might be more advanced. >> tucker: no sexism on my show. >> sorry. >> tucker: like boys brains are larger that kind of toxic masculinity has no place on this program. >> sorry. >> tucker: the bottom line is, all they can think of difference in brain size, different in genitalia -- >> perhaps. minor. >> tucker: minor things like that. >> yeah, yeah. >> tucker: not perhaps. like factually. so those are not minor things. those ar...

Affects a person's life lie logically. the experts say that boys and girls, all genders are along. the boy's brain, the male brain might be larger. the female's language might be more advanced. >> tucker: no sexism on my show. >> sorry. >> tucker: like boys brains are larger that kind of toxic masculinity has no place on this program. >> sorry. >> tucker: the bottom line is, all they can think of difference in brain size, different in genitalia -- >> perhaps. minor. >> tucker: minor things like that. >> yeah, yeah. >> tucker: not perhaps. like factually. so those are not minor things. those ar...

The most striking difference is brain size men's brains are bigger than females but that doesn't mean men's brains before better. a study from twenty thirteen discovered another difference it showed that the exchange of information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain is greater among women whereas connections in male brains are typically stronger between the front and back regions. this explains gender specific strengths such as greater empathy and women and spatial orientation in men. more recent studies suggest however that far from being fundamentally different our brains ar...