Human And Chimpanzee Brains Same When As A Baby

Human And Chimpanzee Brains, Although no human being who wants equated with chimpanzees, in fact, at birth the human brain has a similarity with the primate brain. However, the equation will change over time and makes people more intelligent than chimpanzees.

There are similarities between human and chimp babies at birth, ie born in the forebrain that has not been formed.  Development of Human And Chimpanzee Brains were similarly shaped by life experiences. This is what allows human infants and chimpanzees have in common such as the desire to smile on thecaregiver.

But new research suggests the human brain volume and then grew much faster than the chimpanzee. This then makes humans and chimps are different, as reported by The New York Times. Growth occurs in the brain region known as the prefrontal cortex and the part that makes cognitive (understanding and intelligence) man is better than the other animals, including chimpanzees.

The prefrontal cortex plays a major role in decision making, self-awareness and creative thinking. The prefrontal cortex is also one of the components of the limbic system in charge of the rationalization of emotion. The rapid development of the prefrontal cortex in humans causes the human superior skills in communication and social interaction than the chimpanzee.

This is evident from the research conducted a zoologist at Kyoto University in Japan. Researchers found that neural networks in the prefrontal cortex of the chimpanzee did not grow as fast as in humans. So although at birth theHuman And Chimpanzee Brains have something in common on the front, but then the human brain grew much more rapidly.

These findings have been published in the journal Current Biology.

For information, a large brain (cerebrum) is composed of four main sections, called lobes. The four parts of the lobe, among others:

• The back (occipital lobe) is responsible for vision
• The front (frontal lobes) having the role of intentional acts such as giving the assessment, creativity, problem solving and planning.
• Parietal lobe, serves to process something that is associated with a higher sensory and language functions.
• Temporal lobe is responsible for hearing, memory, and language comprehension.