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Brains of Neanderthals were just as big as early humans, scientists claim

The head of our 50,000-year-old ancestor was recreated using virtual casts, allowing scientists to recreate the Neanderthal brain Virtual casts of skull fossils were used to reproduce the brain of a ... read more

Neanderthal brain organoids come to life

“We're trying to recreate Neanderthal minds,” Muotri says. “I'm a little envious,” says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta who is ... read more

Neanderthal ancestors died out because of the shape of their brains, not necessarily the size, according to latest research

To reconstruct a Neanderthal brain, the authors started by measuring the overall ... The authors report that the same process has been shown to effectively recreate the structure of a bonobo brain by ... read more

Scientists are now growing Neanderthal mini brains in the lab

"We're trying to recreate Neanderthal minds," Muotri told Science ... the gene using CRISPR allows the researchers to compare the Neanderoids with their human brain organoids. They've already noted ... read more

Scientists Successfully Grow Neanderthal “Minibrains” in Petri Dish

“We’re trying to recreate Neanderthal minds,” Muotri says. To be clear, this is quite far from a full brain. We aren’t (probably) making conscious minds in Petri dishes. These organoids represent a ... read more

Neanderthal brains re-created in a lab could one day be put into crab-like ROBOTS

‘We're trying to recreate Neanderthal minds,’ said Dr Alysson Muotri ... Earlier this year, a Japanese study recreated the structure of the typical Neanderthal brain for the first time, based on casts ... read more

Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

"We're trying to recreate Neanderthal minds," Muotri says. “I'm a little envious,” says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta who is ... read more

Geneticists Are Growing Neanderthal "Minibrains" in a Lab — Here’s How

Because this gene controls splicing of RNA from other genes, NOVA1 likely helped produce more than 100 proteins in Neanderthal brains, a great starting-off point for recreating one today ... of an ... read more

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The researchers say some of those genes are thought to affect the Neanderthal brain. The lead researcher, Alysson Muotri, was quoted in the journal Science saying that he’d like to “recreate ... read more