Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life 96
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have discovered that the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped structure deep within the temporal lobe, is important to a rich and varied social life among humans. The finding was published this week in a new study in Nature Neuroscience and is similar to previous findings in other primate species, which compared the size and complexity of social groups across those species."
Re:The ultimate coward (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm allergic to almonds.
But are you allergic to almond-shaped non-almonds? That is the question.
Amygdala != Almond
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Phrenology 2.0 (Score:2, Insightful)
Quite seriously. "Oh, Brain part X is big/small/odd, so he has trait Y". Just because we can look past the skull now, we're no longer measuring bumps on the skull, we're measuring bumps inside. Essentially the same bull.