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    the evolution of the brain and the principles that govern it. While much has been discovered, not everything currently known is well understood. The evolution...
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  • The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution. Measuring brain...
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    The triune brain is a model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behavior, proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean...
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    The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and...
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  • high on the list. Other topics mentioned include the evolution of the brain (with emphasis on the function of the neocortex in humans), the evolutionary...
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    example of maladaptation in neuroplasticity within the evolution of the brain is phantom pain in individuals who have lost limbs. While the brain is exceptionally...
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  • The evolution of human intelligence is closely tied to the evolution of the human brain and to the origin of language. The timeline of human evolution...
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  • Development of the nervous system in humans Evolution of the brain Practopoiesis Tau, G. Z.; Peterson, B. S. (2010). "Normal Development of Brain Circuits"...
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  • Encephalization is a characteristic of a species. Rules for brain size relates to the number brain neurons have varied in evolution, then not all mammalian brains...
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    gradual increase in brain volume (brain size) as the ancestors of modern humans progressed along the timeline of human evolution, starting from about...
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    many neurons make a human brain? Billions fewer than we thought". The Guardian. Eryomin, A. L. (2022). "Biophysics of Evolution of Intellectual Systems"....
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    Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid...
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    Dean Falk (category Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies alumni)
    neuroanthropologist who specializes in the evolution of the brain and cognition in higher primates. She is the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology and a Distinguished...
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  • Brain, Behavior and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering evolutionary neurobiology. It was established in 1968 with Walter Riss as...
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  • and behavior to study the evolution of changes in the brain. They study a multitude of processes including the evolution of vocal, visual, auditory...
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  • timeline Human brain development timeline Encephalization quotient Evolution of the brain Neural development Translating Neurodevelopmental Time Across Mammalian...
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    Many scientists have found the evolution of the eye attractive to study because the eye distinctively exemplifies an analogous organ found in many animal...
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  • A matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere. It was proposed in 1997 by Robert J. Bradbury...
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    573–586. PMID 3216103. Radinsky, L. (1975). "Evolution of the Felid Brain". Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 11 (3–4): 214–254 (see p. 242). doi:10.1159/000123635...
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  • number Evolution of the brain List of evolutionary psychologists Evolutionary origin of religions Evolutionary psychology and culture Molecular evolution Primate...
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    PMC 3813341. PMID 24132311. Jerison, Harry J. (1973), "Evolution of the Brain in Birds", Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence, Elsevier, pp. 177–199, doi:10...
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  • high-dimensional case, the efficiency of the search process may be increased by many orders of magnitude. In the brain the evolution of DNA-messages is supposed to...
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  • bones, and flint appear across Europe and the Middle East. Control of fire by early humans Evolution of the brain Wrangham, Richard W.; Jones, James Holland;...
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  • Development and evolution of the brain. How and why did the brain evolve? What are the molecular determinants of individual brain development? Origin of Eukaryotes...
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    correspondence between the size of a brain area and the importance of its function to the organism. An important step in the evolution of mammals about 200...
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  • evolutionary process of natural selection. From the evolutionary perspective, evolution resulted in variations of the human mind. Natural selection refined these...
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  • corresponds to the evolution of human intelligence or in other words, an increase in brain size. This is provided and shown by Robin Dunbar's social brain hypothesis...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to evolution: In biology, evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of...
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  • transportation Pig intelligence Roth, Gerhard; Dicke, Ursula (2005). "Evolution of the brain and intelligence". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9 (5): 250–7. doi:10...
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    human evolution, the hominid brain tripled in size, peaking 500,000 years ago. Much of the brain's expansion took place in the neocortex. The cerebral...
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