Emory University

New study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, November 19th, 2004

The intelligence and cognitive capabilities of dolphins and their aquatic cousins have long fascinated the public and the scientific community, but the question of how and why they have such large brains has mostly gone unanswered.

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of its kind, a new study maps how brain size changed in dolphins and their relatives the past 47 million years, and helps to provide some answers to how the species evolved in relation to humans.

The study, published in the December 2004 edition of the Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology, was conducted by psychologist Lori...

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