The May 3, 2012 issue of the journal Brain, Behavior, and
Evolution tackled an issue which has millions of us humans
wondering: How does the cerebellum of the platypus develop???
Scientists (and I use that term loosely) working (and I use that
term loosely too) at the Department of Anatomy, School of
Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia examined a group of mammals, monotremes, whose young
are incubated in a "leathery-shelled egg and fed with milk from
teatless areolae after hatching." Their research goal? "To
determine whether cerebellar circuitry is able to contribute to
the coordination of locomotion in the monotreme hatchling, and
to correlate cerebellar development with behavioral maturation."
When President Richard Nixon declared way on cancer during the
1970s, NIH had dedicated just $40 million dollars per year on
research. Those were the days when 1 out of 23 women were
expected to die from breast cancer. Today, it's one out of 3.
Clearly, something's not working. So w