{"id":9844,"date":"2011-05-20T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/mammals-large-brains-evolved-for-smell\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:35:19","slug":"mammals-large-brains-evolved-for-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/mammals-large-brains-evolved-for-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammals&#8217; large brains evolved for smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p class=\"introduction\">A highly developed sense of smell kick-started the development of mammals&#8217; big brains. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists used very high-resolution scanning to study the skulls of two of the earliest known mammal species. <\/p>\n<p>Comparing the shape of their brain cases to those of slightly earlier animals, or &#8220;pre-mammals&#8221;, revealed that the first brain areas to over-develop were those associated with the sense of smell.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in Science. <\/p>\n<p>An improved sense of smell may have allowed our tiny, furry ancestors to hunt at night. <\/p>\n<p>The researchers were able to create 3D images of prehistoric animals&#8217; brains using the latest computed tomography, or CT, scanning methods.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/13448202\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">      <a href=\"http:\/\/fraynelson.org\">Publicado via email<\/a> a partir de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraynelson.org\/mammals-large-brains-evolved-for-smell\">Palabras de camino<\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly developed sense of smell kick-started the development of mammals&#8217; big brains. Scientists used very high-resolution scanning to study the skulls of two of the earliest known mammal species. Comparing the shape of their brain cases to those of slightly earlier animals, or &#8220;pre-mammals&#8221;, revealed that the first brain areas to over-develop were those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/mammals-large-brains-evolved-for-smell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mammals&#8217; large brains evolved for smell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}