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This suggests that, like many primates, Aegyptopithecus had good vision
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Human Ancestor Had Lime-Size Brain John Roach for National Geographic News May 14, 2007 An extraordinarily complete skull of a 30-million-year-old human ancestor once held a brain about the size of a lime, according to a new study
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Brain Size The completeness of the fossil skull allowed Simons and colleagues to take computerized x-rays and create a virtual model of the specimen's tiny brain
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"Although its eye sockets were small," Simons added, "it was daytime active
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In addition, the new skull is less than half the size of the only other nearly complete Aegyptopithecus skull, found by Simons and colleagues found at the same Egyptian site in 1966.
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(Related: "Did Earliest Human Ancestors Have More Apelike Faces." [April 5, 2007.)] Nevertheless, the brain region responsible for vision, called the visual cortex, was large
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The skull is "extraordinarily unusual," he said, mainly because it's complete and uncrushed
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It has high visual acuity unlike noctural animals [such as] lemurs and bush babies"
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Based on analyses of previous fossil skulls collected at the dig site outside Cairo, Egypt, scientists had assumed the ancient monkey's brain was larger and more advanced
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The new fossil indicates Aegyptopithecus had a relatively primitive brain compared to its descendants: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and other so-called Old World primates
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Enlarge Photo Printer Friendly Email to a Friend RELATED Map of Egypt "Hobbit" Was Own Species, Not Diseased Human, Brain Study Says (January 29, 2007) New Primate Fossils Support "Out of Africa" Theory (October 17, 2005) Elwyn Simons, a primatologist at Duke University, and colleagues discovered only the second intact cranium of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis found to date
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CT scans allowed researchers to study inside the skull as well.
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The skull—of a species related to apes, humans, and monkeys—is evidence that the more advanced and bigger brains of African primates developed later than previously believed, researchers said
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The creature was named Nigersaurus taqueti
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Paleontologist Paul Sereno of National Geographic put the dinosaur up on display Thursday at the headquarters of the National Geographic Society
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The first evidence of Nigersaurus was in the 1990s and now researchers have reconstructed the entire skull and skeleton
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It was 30-feet long and had a skull which stayed close to the ground similar to how a modern-day vacuum works
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"I hope this work gives people hope -- uplifting, take your breath away," he said in response to a question on what he expected the public to get from the skull.
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The dinosaur is going to remain there until March
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The remains of the dinosaur have absolutely left paleontologists amazed
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The researchers stated the amazing thing about this dinosaur is that it survived even though it went against many previous theories and beliefs
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It is art but it is more timeless than contemporary art," he said
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"We felt we didn't need it, so we took it out
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As an indication of the wealth he has amassed since being spotted in 1991 by BritArt mogul Charles Saatchi Hirst, who financed the skull himself, said he couldn't remember whether it had cost £10-15 million pounds ($20-30 million)
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Other works in the new exhibition include pickled creatures, a flying dove suspended in mid-air, a flayed human statue holding its own skin and a series of pictures of an operation being carried out
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It had over 50 columns of teeth along the front edge of its jaw
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While the skull is platinum and the diamonds flawless -- and ethically sourced, Hirst stressed -- the teeth are real
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But it also has a feeling of victory over death," Hirst said as the sparkling skull was unveiled to the public for the first time amid tight security at central London's White Cube gallery
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There is good art, bad art, indifferent art
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Hirst, who has a preoccupation with blood and death and whose works range from diced and pickled quadrupeds to bloody depictions of birth, said he was inspired by similarly bejeweled Aztec skulls
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"It would be sad it it ends up in a vault somewhere that nobody sees
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"It shows we are not going to live for ever
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"It was very important to put the real teeth back
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Hirst, whose works regularly fetch millions of pounds, said he hoped the skull would not be snapped up by a private buyer and taken away from public view
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The skull, cast from a 35-year-old 18th century European male, is coated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pink diamond worth more than $8 million in the center of its forehead
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The skull is missing one tooth, which Hirst initially replaced with a gold one and then decided to leave out
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Like the animals in formaldehyde you have got an actual animal in there
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It feels sort of human and quirky," he said
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Obviously I would like it to be on display
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"If anybody buys it, I would make that part of the conditions," he said
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"I've stopped worrying about what art is
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He rejected suggestions that his works were more a standing joke against the art establishment than real works of art
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