Scientists were able to recreate the virtual brain of the ancient skulls of primates. The size of the brain was no larger than a kiwi.
According to experts, this would help solve one of the most interesting evolutionary puzzles: how modern primates developed a brain. The main idea of the research is that scientists link the brain of a monkey with evolution, which upgraded it to the human.
Paleontologists from the University of Florida (UF) in the US found skull monkeys that lived in the tropical forests of Wyoming about 50 million years ago. It is considered the connecting link between primitive and modern primates are the fossils, which became the best proof and opportunity for the exercise of neuroanatomy. But there was one problem – the decay of the brain of the fragile skull contained only stone and dust. Class Adapiforms, not directly related to the people, developed after the first ancestors called plesiadapiforms, living about 65 million years ago.
The later generation of primates differs bulging eyes forward. Thanks to the work of the experts failed to consider the anatomical features that showed up in the era of adapiforms brain had something similar with modern apes.
