Health Issue: About Babies Brain

Babies' brain growth reflects evolution Washington: Watching how human brain grows between infancy and adulthood is almost similar to watching evolution in action , says a new study.         Researchers at the Washingon University found that the brain regions that expand the most during infancy and childhood are the same parts that expanded the most during evolution as humans diverged from other primates.          It's not an absoute one-to-one correlation, but the overlap is so strikjing that it's hard to ignore, said David Van Essen, who led the study. Every region expanads as the brain matures, but on-third of the cerebral cortex expands approximately twice as much as other cortical areas as an infant matures into ayoung adult.