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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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Evidence for Concerted and Mosaic Brain Evolution in Dragon Lizards [PDF]
, 2017 The brain plays a critical role in a wide variety of functions including behaviour, perception, motor control, and homeostatic maintenance. Each function can undergo different selective pressures over the course of evolution, and as selection acts on the
J. Scott Keogh +21 more
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, 2021 Brain-body static allometry, which is the relationship between brain size and body size within species, is thought to reflect developmental and genetic constraints.
Tsuboi, Masahito +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 All brain processes that generate behaviour, apart from reflexes, operate with information that is in an “activated” state. This activated information, which is known as working memory (WM), is generated by the effect of attentional processes on incoming
Brian Earl
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Twelve protections evolved for the brain, and their roles in extending its functional life
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2023 As human longevity has increased, we have come to understand the ability of the brain to function into advanced age, but also its vulnerability with age, apparent in the age-related dementias.
Jonathan Stone +4 more
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Evolution of the human brain [PDF]
Science, 2020 A human-specific gene is a determinant of the cognitive architecture of the human cerebral ...
Dehay, Colette, Kennedy, Henry
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Brain Sciences, 2022 Olduvai protein domains (also known as DUF1220 or NBPF) have undergone the greatest human-specific increase in the copy number of any coding region in the genome.
Igor Vořechovský
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New Remains of Scandiavis mikkelseni Inform Avian Phylogenetic Relationships and Brain Evolution
Diversity, 2021 Although an increasing number of studies are combining skeletal and neural morphology data in a phylogenetic context, most studies do not include extinct taxa due to the rarity of preserved endocasts.
Miriam Heingård +3 more
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Science, 2007 The evolution of unusually large brains in some groups of animals, notably primates, has long been a puzzle. Although early explanations tended to emphasize the brain's role in sensory or technical competence (foraging skills, innovations, and way-finding), the balance of evidence now clearly favors the suggestion that it was the computational demands ...
Dunbar, R. I M +1 more
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A Closer Look to the Evolution of Neurons in Humans and Apes Using Stem-Cell-Derived Model Systems
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 The cellular, molecular and functional comparison of neurons from closely related species is crucial in evolutionary neurobiology. The access to living tissue and post-mortem brains of humans and non-human primates is limited and the state of the tissue ...
Maria Schörnig, Elena Taverna
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