How we think like fish, birds and reptiles

Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 16:37 in Biology & Nature

The basic decision-making circuitry underlying social behaviors such as fighting and mating is incredibly similar in all vertebrates, from fish to mammals, new research suggests. These networks may be 450 million years old, the researchers said.

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