Sentences with phrase «hominin brain expansion»

The relationship between the local environment and hominin brain expansion is less clear.

As significant hominin brain expansion occurred at ∼ 1.8 Ma coeval with occurrence of massive ephemeral deep - water lakes, while subsequent expansions are associated with extreme dry periods.

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«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.