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Human Brain Evolution, Brain Lanes, Brain Maps, Toxoplasmystery Solved!, Lake Of Bones!, Koala Poo Pills, Locust Face Plants, Underwater Boat!, Beneficial Recklessness?, Mongolia!, Practice Or Perfect, Spider Storms, Memory Ripples?, Bioluminescent Schools!, And Much More…

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So welcome everyone to another episode of

This week in science,

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First up, the BIG science news stories of the week!

Human Brain Evolution

It wasn’t a very straight line.

Brain Lanes

Reading and math are relegated to different parts of the brain, but they follow the same tracts of white matter between brain regions. Digging deeper, neuroscientists discovered that the subject matter signals are also separated into sub-tra...