91. Neuroscience students examine human brains. 92. New research on how the human brain develops has led some parents to think the more stimulation, the better. 93. Not coincidentally, that was the size of the typical hunter-gatherer clan when the human brain was evolving. 94. Now, researchers have a new noninvasive method, functional magnetic resonance imaging, for studying the live human brain at work. 95. Nicolelis thinks it might be possible to train the human brain to control entirely novel robotic body parts if they are appropriately wired into our neurons. 96. Now and then the public is even entertained by some actual news about the human brain. 97. One cannot fully explain the extraordinary capabilities of the human hand, any more than those of the human brain, simply by reasoning backward from its utility. 98. One of the most intriguing threads to run through the series involves the comparison of human brain chemistry and activity with that of animals. 99. Other researchers are implanting a form of electronic pacemaker in human brains to help treat epilepsy. 100. Reducing the brain size of many early hominids, experts said, could force serious revision in ideas about the evolution of the human brain. |