{"id":92777,"date":"2026-05-07T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92777"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:55:38","slug":"singing-mice-had-approximately-three-times-the-number-of-neurons-sending-signals-from-the-motor-cortex-to-two-specific-downstream-regions-of-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92777","title":{"rendered":"\u201csinging mice had approximately three times the number of neurons sending signals from the motor cortex to two specific downstream regions of the brain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/06\/science\/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-have-it-too.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/06\/science\/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-have-it-too.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Language features emerge in small brains without novel anatomy but through expansion of existing pathways.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly suspect something like this enabled humans to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/06\/science\/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-have-it-too.html Language features emerge in small brains without novel anatomy but through expansion of existing pathways. I strongly suspect something like this enabled humans to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92778,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92777\/revisions\/92778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}