David Linden's is brasher: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God.
Metopic suture of Taung (Australopithecus africanus) and its implications for hominin brain evolution.
The findings also provide insights into how different types of evolutionary pressure can drive brain evolution.
When this growth pattern appeared is one of the many unanswered questions about human brain evolution.
As we understand brain evolution better we'll be able to make sharper speculations about what dinosaur brains might have looked like.
Another was an increase in the complexity of existing cell types, and astrocytes in particular have undergone numerous changes during human brain evolution.
At the institute, he was chief of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior in Poolesville, Md., and retired in the early 1990s.
Numerous genes have been implicated in human brain evolution, but it is difficult to link any of them to specific changes in brain organization or structure.
Vanduffel and his colleagues identified several higher order regions of the visual cortex that apparently underwent changes in function during the course of human brain evolution.
It now seems clear, however, that the capabilities of human astrocytes far exceed those of mice, and researchers cannot hope to properly understand them, or how their specializations contributed to human brain evolution, by restricting their work to mouse models.
One of your premises is the idea that technological innovation was at a standstill during most of our brain evolution, suggesting that the brain was evolving for reasons other than to make better tools.
