International audienceRecent advances in neurobiology, paleontology, and paleogenetics allow us to associate changes in brain size and organization with three main “moments” of increased behavioral complexity and, more speculatively, language development. First, Australopiths display a significant increase in brain size relative to the great apes and an incipient extension of postnatal brain development. However, their cortical organization remains essentially similar to that of apes. Second, over the last 2 My, with two notable exceptions, brain size increases dramatically, partly in relation to changes in body size. Differential enlargements and reorganizations of cortical areas lay the foundation for the “language-ready” brain and cumula...
Theories of hominin and human cognitive evolution have traditionally focused on the phylogeny of the...
Neuroanatomical, molecular, and paleontological evidence is examined in light of human brain evoluti...
Since brain does not fossilize, brain endocast (i.e., replica of the inner surface of the braincase,...
If we aim to understand the acquisition of human cognitive organization during hominin evolution, tw...
Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of ti...
As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of our und...
As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of our unde...
Modern humans have large and globular brains that distinguish them from their extinct Homo relatives...
A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding the patter...
Le cerveau est un tissu mou, qui ne se fossilisent pas. Pour en déduire l'évolution du cerveau humai...
The present study attempted to reconstruct 3D brain shape of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens bas...
Modern humans have larger and more globular brains when compared to other primates. Such anatomical ...
A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding the patter...
There is controversy around the mechanisms that guided the change in brain shape during the evolutio...
Why are humans so different from other primate species? What makes us so capable of creating languag...
Theories of hominin and human cognitive evolution have traditionally focused on the phylogeny of the...
Neuroanatomical, molecular, and paleontological evidence is examined in light of human brain evoluti...
Since brain does not fossilize, brain endocast (i.e., replica of the inner surface of the braincase,...
If we aim to understand the acquisition of human cognitive organization during hominin evolution, tw...
Human brains are three times larger, are organized differently, and mature for a longer period of ti...
As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of our und...
As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of our unde...
Modern humans have large and globular brains that distinguish them from their extinct Homo relatives...
A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding the patter...
Le cerveau est un tissu mou, qui ne se fossilisent pas. Pour en déduire l'évolution du cerveau humai...
The present study attempted to reconstruct 3D brain shape of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens bas...
Modern humans have larger and more globular brains when compared to other primates. Such anatomical ...
A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding the patter...
There is controversy around the mechanisms that guided the change in brain shape during the evolutio...
Why are humans so different from other primate species? What makes us so capable of creating languag...
Theories of hominin and human cognitive evolution have traditionally focused on the phylogeny of the...
Neuroanatomical, molecular, and paleontological evidence is examined in light of human brain evoluti...
Since brain does not fossilize, brain endocast (i.e., replica of the inner surface of the braincase,...