Sizing up human brain evolution

Richard McElreath ()

Nature, 2018, vol. 557, issue 7706, 496-497

Abstract: An innovative computational analysis of factors that might have influenced human brain evolution suggests that ecological, rather than social, factors had a key role in the evolution of large, rapidly developing brains.

Keywords: Anthropology; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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