Evolutionarily Youngest Brain Regions Age First

10. September 2024

A research team from Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf has discovered that the regions of the human brain that have expanded most recently in the course of evolution show the strongest aging effects. This is evident from comparisons with brain ageing in our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. The findings of this study have now been published in the journal Science Advances.

Brains of humans and chimpanzees age differently (image generated with the help of AI)
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— HHU / Paul Schwaderer / Midjourney

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Original paper:

The uniqueness of human vulnerability to brain aging in great ape evolution by Sam Vickery et al, Sciences Advances (2024)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado273

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