Achievement

IGERT trainees Serena Bianchi and Amy Bauernfeind, along with faculty Chet Sherwood (PI) and colleagues, have shown that the timing of synapse formation in the development of the cerebral cortex of chimpanzees and humans are similar, but distinct from more distantly related macaque monkeys. These results have implications for understanding the co-evolution of social learning and the brain. The research involved collaboration with geneticists, primatologists, and biomedical veterinarians, These results are in press at PNAS.