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and even the evolution of the human brain. Li Haipeng, a computational biologist at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health and another senior author, emphasized that this discovery is just ...

Our study was the first to find the arcuate fasciculus is involved in these functions. This insight underscores the complexity of human brain evolution, suggesting that our advanced cognitive ...