The primitive brain of early Homo
| Autor: | Assaf Marom, Delta Bayu Murti, David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Paul Tafforeau, Rusyad Adi Suriyanto, Iwan Kurniawan, Toetik Koesbardiati, José Luis Alatorre Warren, Silvano Engel, Thibault Bienvenu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0303 health sciences
Brain organization 060101 anthropology Multidisciplinary biology Western asia 06 humanities and the arts Biological evolution biology.organism_classification Southeast asian 03 medical and health sciences Frontal lobe Human evolution Evolutionary biology Social cognition 0601 history and archaeology Homo erectus 030304 developmental biology |
| Zdroj: | Science. 372:165-171 |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.aaz0032 |
| Popis: | Brain evolution in early Homo Human brains are larger than and structurally different from the brains of the great apes. Ponce de León et al. explored the timing of the origins of the structurally modern human brain (see the Perspective by Beaudet). By comparing endocasts, representations of the inner surface of fossil brain cases, from early Homo from Africa, Georgia, and Southeast Asia, they show that these structural innovations emerged later than the first dispersal of the genus from Africa, and were probably in place by 1.7 to 1.5 million years ago. The modern humanlike brain organization emerged in cerebral regions thought to be related to toolmaking, social cognition, and language. Their findings suggest that brain reorganization was not a prerequisite for dispersals from Africa, and that there might have been more than one long-range dispersal of early Homo . Science , this issue p. 165 ; see also p. 124 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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