To compare the two brains, scientists assembled a virtual Neanderthal brain by scanning skull fragments and comparing the computer models at different stages of growth to the human baby brain.

为了比较两者，科学家扫描了尼安·德塔人的头骨碎片，在电脑里组合成一个虚拟的大脑，然后跟不同发育阶段的现代人婴儿大脑的电脑模型做比较。

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During surgery, the doctors at Arizona's University Medical Center removed a large portion of Giffords' skull to allow the brain to swell without being damaged.

在手术中，为了使大脑正常隆起而不受伤害，美国亚利桑那州大学医疗中心的医生们切除了吉佩兹的大部分头骨。

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A cast of the inside of the skull shows an apelike brain, but one that had taken the first step toward being reorganized on human lines.

头骨的内部形状表明了这是一个类人猿的大脑，但是这个大脑已经向人类重组的大脑迈出了第一步。

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It's not as though what the scientist did was open up my skull,take the brain out.

并不是那个科学家把我的头颅打开把大脑取出来。

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So, you would expect that when you rip open the skull and look at the brain; you'd see something glorious, you'd see, I don't know a big, shiny thing with glass tubes and blinding lights and sparks and wonderful colors.

所以你会期待,当你打开头盖骨时,当你看到大脑的时候,你会看到些非常辉煌的东西,你会看见,我不知道,附有玻璃管的大块发光的东西,发出耀眼的光芒,不停地冒着火花,拥有美妙的颜色

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Each blow received results in the brain being shaken within the skull.

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But the problem is that they measure brain activity outside the skull -- you know, the thing we've evolved to shield the murky goings-on in our minds from prying EEG sensors.

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In one case, a man who had been a linebacker for sixteen years, you could see, without the aid of magnification, that there was trouble: there was a shiny tan layer of scar tissue, right on the surface of the frontal lobe, where the brain had repeatedly slammed into the skull.

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