Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Monkey leaders and
followers have 'specialised brains'
The proportion of monkey
brains was found to vary considerably depending on their social status within
the hierarchy, according to the study by researchers in University of Oxford.
This could suggest that monkeys need some specialty to be good at being in
respective status of the hierarchy. That sounds quite reasonable when it comes
to organizations and society of the human being. Also, it indicates it is not
just physical strength or aggression that brings some monkey earns and plays
the leader’s role, like humans.
The next question
is whether such brain proportion is inherited or developed. At the moment, it
hasn’t been clarified yet but the lead researcher of this project thinks it is
combination of both.
Enjoy reading and
learning about how brains of primates vary according to the role the society.
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