Seasonal Programmed Brain Cell Death Foiled In Living Birds Posted: 5 months ago by bjk1903
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system
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Male Birds Use 'Wingman' to Win Girl Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Dating tips for birds
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'Time-sharing' tropical birds key to evolutionary mystery Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Whereas most birds are sole proprietors of their nests, some tropical species “time share” together – a discovery that helps clear up a 150-year-old evolutionary mystery regarding how two species can evolve without some geographical separation such as a mountain range
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UCLA researchers show that culture influences brain cells Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Brain's mirror neurons swayed by ethnicity and culture.
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