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reveals: Homo sapiens has a better sense of smell than
Neanderthals  12 December 2011 Universitaet Tübingen  An
international team, including researchers from the University of
Tübingen and the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung in
Frankfurt used high end imaging techniques to reveal differences
in the brain form that concern the sense of smell.  Two
different human species, Neanderthals and modern humans, have
independently evolved equally large brains. Although their
brains are not distinguishable in terms of size, differences in
brain shape might indicate differences in brain organization
that may be linked to behavior and cognition.  An international
collaborative study led by the Spanish Natural Science Museum
with the cooperation of Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati of the
University Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human
Evolution and Palaeoecology was published today in Nature
Communications (DOI 10.1038/ncomms1593). High-tech medical i