Human brains have shrunk: the questions are when and why

Human brains have shrunk: the questions are when and why

Human brain reduction from the Late Pleistocene/Holocene to the modern day is a longstanding anthropological observation documented with numerous lines of independent evidence. In a recent study (DeSilva et al., 2021; Front. Ecol. Evol.), we analyzed a large compilation of fossil and recent human cr...

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Main Authors: Jeremy DeSilva, Luke Fannin, Isabelle Cheney, Alexander Claxton, Iulian Ilieş, Jessica Kittelberger, Jeff Stibel, James Traniello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
encephalization
Homo sapiens
Holocene
Pleistocene
social evolution
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1191274/full

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