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Dolphin brain

dominique.flahaut dominique.flahaut at skynet.be
Sat Jan 30 10:01:16 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've also heared that dolphins have bigger frontal and prefrontal areas. But
I have no any objective or sure information about that. If that was actually
confirmed, I would be profoundly intrigued too...

Dominique





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