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Snakes on the brain: Are primates hard-wired to recognize snakes?
October 28, 2013 by NewsBot
Was the evolution of high-quality vision in our ancestors driven by the threat of snakes? New work supports this theory. In a new paper, researchers show that there are specific nerve cells in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that respond to images of snakes.
