Early Differentiation Of Higher Brain Structures Affected By Competing Pathways

Sand-dwelling and rock-dwelling cichlids living in East Africa's Lake Malawi share a nearly identical genome, but have very different personalities. The territorial rock-dwellers live in communities where social interactions are important, while the sand-dwellers are itinerant and less aggressive. Those behavioral differences likely arise from a complex region of the brain known as the telencephalon, which governs communication, emotion, movement and memory in vertebrates - including humans, where a major portion of the telencephalon is known as the cerebral cortex... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..