”It is still possible that these newly identified neurons will also be found the brains of primates like monkeys or chimps, Lein says.”
Possible and, in my universe, quite a bit more likely than that these cells are “unique to humans” (cursorily reading the paper, these scientists didn’t even look for this type of cell in anything but humans, but only claim that, if rodents had them, they would have been found there, given the amount of time spent looking at rodent brains)
Disclaimer: I’m not a neuroscientist (but that’s an advantage, too. I don’t have to keep hunting for funding. That removes incentives to sensationalize results)
Possible and, in my universe, quite a bit more likely than that these cells are “unique to humans” (cursorily reading the paper, these scientists didn’t even look for this type of cell in anything but humans, but only claim that, if rodents had them, they would have been found there, given the amount of time spent looking at rodent brains)
Disclaimer: I’m not a neuroscientist (but that’s an advantage, too. I don’t have to keep hunting for funding. That removes incentives to sensationalize results)