cerebrum
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They appear to have inherited several key traits, including expansion of the cerebrum, cerebellum and optic lobes, from earlier relatives before further adapting these regions for flight, Fabbri says.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 9, 2025
Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird-like dinosaurs.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
Lemon's -ism appears have taproots into the frontal cortex of his cerebrum, entangled in a way that may be impossible for any amount of "formal training" to overcome.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2023
A study published Thursday in the Journal of Comparative Neurology suggests the dinosaur’s cerebrum contained enough neurons to solve problems and even form cultures.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023
The superior peduncles, which descend from the corpora quadrigemina of the cerebrum, form connexions mainly with the corpus dentatum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Especially since our greedy, oxygen-hungry cerebra owe everything to the heart’s complex, coordinated contraction.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2015
For George, though you would not have suspected it from his exterior, was one of those in whose cerebra the grey matter splashes restlessly about, producing strong curtains and crisp dialogue.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Editor Reedy is but casting his pearls before swine—is talking to people who, having eyes see not, having ears hear not, and whose cerebra are filled with sawdust.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
Chimpanzees, man's closest animal relatives, have larger cerebrums than most other primates, but man's is the largest.
From Time Magazine Archive
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brain scans show their cerebrums are perfectly normal, if not extraordinary.
From Time Magazine Archive
There may exist somewhere in this country those hardy viewers who, with pads, pencils, reference works and receptive cerebrums, actually catalogued policy nuances and body language and advanced their state of decision.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was therefore forced to conclude that the atmosphere in the coffin was literally impregnated with psychic cerebrums, and that every internal organ I possessed was being subjected to the most minute inspection.
From Byways of Ghost-Land by O'Donnell, Elliott
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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