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Dolphin brain

Michael C. Cheney cheney at ucla.edu
Sat Jan 30 04:05:38 EST 1999


In article <19990123093149.19507.00000817 at ngol01.aol.com>,
tonyjeffs2 at aol.comTonyJ (TonyJeffs2) wrote:

| Dolphins have biger brains than people. I always thought maybe it is a bigger
| cerebellum or something to do with movement,  but I recently heared that they
| have a bigger cerebral cortex, so now I'm intrigued. 

I don't know about the cortex size, but dolphins cerebellums are much
larger than humans...
 -mike

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Michael Cheney                                        cheney at ucla.edu



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