NDLI: The Evolution of Human Brain Development

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Author	Neubauer, Simon Hublin, Jean Jacques
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The human brain is a large and complex organ, setting us apart from other primates. It allows us to exhibit highly sophisticated cognitive and behavioral abilities. Therefore, our brain’s size and morphology are defining features of our species and our fossil ancestors and relatives. Endocasts, i.e., internal casts of the bony braincase, provide evidence about brain size and morphology in fossils. Based on endocasts, we know that our ancestors’ brains increased overall in size and underwent several reorganizational changes. However, it is difficult to relate evolutionary changes of size and shape of endocasts to evolutionary changes of cognition and behavior. We argue here that an understanding of the tempo and mode of brain development can help to interpret the evolution of our brain and the associated cognitive and behavioral changes. To do so, we review structural brain development, cognitive development, and ontogenetic changes of endocranial size and shape in living individuals on the one hand, and ontogenetic patterns (size increase and shape change) in fossil hominins and their evolutionary change on the other hand. Tightly integrating our knowledge on these different levels will be the key of future work on the evolution of human brain development.
Starting Page	568
Ending Page	586
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00713260
Journal	Evolutionary Biology
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	19342845
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ontogeny Cognitive development Hominin Endocast Ecology Animal Genetics and Genomics Human Genetics Developmental Biology Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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