Not exact matches
The combination of
increased brain size and a mother's narrower pelvic outlet (due to standing), caused a major change in
human's gestation length.
The
increased brain size and prolonged dependency of evolving
humans have each catalyzed the other.
His notion was that
human abilities are localised and, when highly developed, could be felt as «bumps» on the skull caused by locally
increased brain size.
The conclusion also questions Wrangham's hypothesis that an
increase in
human brain size was tied to the invention of cooking.
«They have found a smoking gun in the
human genome that connects a regulatory element with a proposed pathway for
increasing brain size,» says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who was not involved with the work.
«This new timeline has significant implications in helping us to understand this period of
human evolution — cooked food provides greater energy, and cooking may be linked to the rapid
increases in
brain size that occurred from 800,000 years ago onwards.
«HARE5 seems to promote the ability to create more neurons and
increase brain size, which allows
human brain development to take advantage of that,» Silver said.
William H. Calvin's marvelous A
Brain for All Seasons argues that such cycles of cool, crash, and burn powered the pump for the enormous increase in brain size and complexity in human be
Brain for All Seasons argues that such cycles of cool, crash, and burn powered the pump for the enormous
increase in
brain size and complexity in human be
brain size and complexity in
human beings.
Human HARE5
increases expression of its target gene, Frizzled 8, affecting the
size and development of the
brain in mice.10
William H. Calvin's marvelous A
Brain for All Seasons argues that such cycles of cool, crash, and burn powered the pump for the enormous increase in brain size and complexity in human be
Brain for All Seasons argues that such cycles of cool, crash, and burn powered the pump for the enormous
increase in
brain size and complexity in human be
brain size and complexity in
human beings.