7 Dec 2025

The five major 'epochs’ of human brain development

From Sunday Morning, 8:40 am on 7 December 2025

Scientists say human brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’. The results come from brain scans of nearly 4000 people aged under one to 90 and provide a new understanding of brain structure, 

Professor Duncan Astle is a researcher in neuroinformatics at Cambridge University and senior author of the study. He speaks to Jim Mora 

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