Neuroscientists in Japan and Brazil have revealed that the brain has special neural circuits to detect snakes, suggesting that the evolution of high-quality vision in our ancestors was driven by the threat of snakes. Hisao Nishijo and Quan Van Le at Toyama University, Japan; and Rafael Maior and Carlos Tomaz at the University of Brasilia, Brazil; and colleagues show that there are specific nerve cells in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that respond to images ...
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