Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng,sci.misc Subject: Re: Genesis of language (was: Why can't my cat talk, and a bunch of others) Message-ID: <9088@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Dec-87 12:00:07 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.9088 Posted: Thu Dec 10 12:00:07 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 12:00:07 EST References: <1987Dec2.182753.622@mntgfx.mentor.com>, <4627@well.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 > Apropos cell death in brains, the old saw about losing 10,000 neurons every > day is now being challenged... Also of note, the other old saw that new neurons are not formed after birth in higher animals is now known to be untrue. At least some higher animals (some types of birds) do grow new neurons at times. Last I heard, nobody yet knows how common this phenomenon is. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry