Longevity and sexual maturity vary across species with number of cortical neurons, and humans are no exception

Hypothalamic stem cells control ageing speed partly through exosomal miRNAs

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Aged chimpanzees exhibit pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease

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Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain: Trade-Off between Body Mass and Number of Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex of Large Carnivoran Species

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Cortical cell and neuron density estimates in one chimpanzee hemisphere

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No relative expansion of the number of prefrontal neurons in primate and human evolution

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Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

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Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass

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Neuroendocrine control of the onset of puberty

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Repression of the Heat Shock Response Is a Programmed Event at the Onset of Reproduction

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Decreasing sleep requirement with increasing numbers of neurons as a driver for bigger brains and bodies in mammalian evolution

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Cellular and molecular longevity pathways: the old and the new

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The Autonomic Brain: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis for Central Processing of Autonomic Function

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Hypothalamic programming of systemic ageing involving IKK-β, NF-κB and GnRH

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A developmental ontology for the mammalian brain based on the prosomeric model

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Large-scale network organization in the avian forebrain: a connectivity matrix and theoretical analysis

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Comparative analysis of encephalization in mammals reveals relaxed constraints on anthropoid primate and cetacean brain scaling

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Neurite Sprouting and Synapse Deterioration in the Aging Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System

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Age-related neuronal loss in the rat brain starts at the end of adolescence

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Gorilla and Orangutan Brains Conform to the Primate Cellular Scaling Rules: Implications for Human Evolution

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Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

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Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

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A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits

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Significant correlation of species longevity with DNA double strand break recognition but not with telomere length

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When does age-related cognitive decline begin?

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Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains

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