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Nature and nurture: Human brains evolved to be more responsive to environmental influences

November 17, 2015 by

Scientists have discovered that human brains exhibit more plasticity, propensity to be modeled by the environment, than chimpanzee brains and that this may have accounted for part of human evolution.

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