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Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015
Understanding the mechanisms of evolution of brain pathways for complex behaviours is still in its infancy. Making further advances requires a deeper understanding of brain homologies, novelties and analogies. It also requires an understanding of how adaptive genetic modifications lead to restructuring of the brain.
Erich Jarvis, Mukta Chakraborty
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Forebrain Organoids to Model the Cell Biology of Basal Radial Glia in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Brain Evolution [PDF]

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022
The acquisition of higher intellectual abilities that distinguish humans from their closest relatives correlates greatly with the expansion of the cerebral cortex.
Flaminia Kaluthantrige Don, Nereo Kalebic   +1 more
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Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better.

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014
Comparative studies of the brain in mammals suggest that there are general architectural principles governing its growth and evolutionary development. We are beginning to understand the geometric, biophysical and energy constraints that have governed the
Michel A. Hofman
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Understanding the Evolution of Mammalian Brain Structures; the Need for a (New) Cerebrotype Approach

Brain Sciences, 2012
The mammalian brain varies in size by a factor of 100,000 and is composed of anatomically and functionally distinct structures. Theoretically, the manner in which brain composition can evolve is limited, ranging from highly modular (“mosaic evolution ...
Romain Willemet
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Investigating the Relationship between Authority of the Reason and Illuminationist Epistemology in the Fideism of Contemporary Man [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
The authority of reason and the effect of the gradual evolution of the brain on faith have been the focus of modern evolutionist philosophy. Having mental faculties and being rational are the highest characteristics of human beings. In terms of practical
Vahid Azizi
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On the Evolution of the Mammalian Brain [PDF]

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2016
Hobson and Friston have hypothesized that the brain must actively dissipate heat in order to process information (Hobson et al., 2014). This physiologic trait is functionally homologous with the first instantation of life formed by lipids suspended in water forming micelles- allowing the reduction in entropy (heat dissipation).
Torday, John S, Miller, William B
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Sleep, Evolution and Brains [PDF]

Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2016
Commentary on Herculano-Houzel S (2015): Decreasing Sleep Requirement with Increasing Numbers of Neurons as a Driver for Bigger Brains and Bodies in Mammalian Evolution.
Barton, R., Cappellini, I.
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The Ferret as a Model System for Neocortex Development and Evolution

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021
The neocortex is the largest part of the cerebral cortex and a key structure involved in human behavior and cognition. Comparison of neocortex development across mammals reveals that the proliferative capacity of neural stem and progenitor cells and the ...
Carlotta Gilardi, Nereo Kalebic
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Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution

Cell
Megan Y Dennis
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Domains, Brains and Evolution [PDF]

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2001
According to Darwinian thinking, organisms are (for the most part) designed by natural selection, and so are (for the most part) integrated collections of adaptations, where an adaptation is a phenotypic trait that is a specialized response to a particular selection pressure. For animals that make their living in the Arctic, one adaptive problem is how
Wheeler, M., Atkinson, A.
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