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Origami copy with the team gel and brain

Updated February 1, 2016 Last 17:43 GMT

Scientists at Harvard University have provided convincing evidence that the folds in the human brain simple physical product, its fastest growing outer layer and the formation of wrinkles.

They made a replica, always smooth and unfolded and expanded with a second layer, when placed in a glass jar solvent fetal brain.

This creates a network of grooves that was very similar to the development of a real human brain - and a computer simulation has over the process in adulthood.

The research is published in the journal Nature Physics .

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