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Will Our Future Brains be Smaller? Wednesday, July 09, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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The speed at which we react to threatening situations can have life or death implications. In the more primitive past, it could have meant escaping a wild animal; today it might mean swerving to avoid a head-on car crash.It has been thought for some years that mammals have two decision-making systems in their brains which operate at different speeds to cope with different situations.New research supports this theory and has shown that the evolutionary pressures arising. (source: bris.ac.uk)
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