Sizing up human brain evolution

McElreath, Richard

doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05197-8

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Sizing up human brain evolution

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McElreath, Richard
Department of Human Behavior Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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McElreath, R. (2018). Sizing up human brain evolution. Nature, 557(7706), 496-497. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05197-8.

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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.