{"id":181744,"date":"2024-01-31T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-pinpoint-growth-of-brains-cerebellum-as-key-to-evolution-of-bird-flight"},"modified":"2024-01-31T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:24:42","slug":"scientists-pinpoint-growth-of-brains-cerebellum-as-key-to-evolution-of-bird-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-pinpoint-growth-of-brains-cerebellum-as-key-to-evolution-of-bird-flight","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pinpoint growth of brain\u2019s cerebellum as key to evolution of bird flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-pinpoint-growth-of-brains-cerebellum-as-key-to-evolution-of-bird-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, they say, appears to be an adaptive increase in the size of the cerebellum in some fossil vertebrates. The cerebellum is a brain region responsible for movement and motor control.<\/p>\n<p>The research findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2023.2172\">published<\/a> in the Jan. 31 issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly? The answer, they say, appears to be an adaptive increase in the size of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}