Nature and nur­ture: Human brains evolved to be more respon­sive to envi­ron­men­tal influ­ences (Phys.org): “Chim­panzees are our clos­est liv­ing rel­a­tives, but what is it about the human brain that makes us so dif­fer­ent? Researchers at the George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty may have unearthed anoth­er piece of the puz­zle. In a study pub­lished on Nov. 16, sci­en­tists…