According to the researchers, their conclusions about the facial development of embryonic mice also appears to apply to us ...

Mammals and birds have dramatically more neurons in their forebrain and cerebellum than reptiles, and neuron numbers have scaled up significantly only four times in more than 300 million years of ...

The initial split was into synapsids (mammals and their relatives) and sauropsids (reptiles and birds). Mammals branched off from other amniotes very early. Several mammalian characteristics are ...

These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...

reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of brain evolution and demonstrate that ...