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 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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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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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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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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Encephalization quotient (redirect from Relative brain size)
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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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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Maladaptation (redirect from Inadaptive evolution)
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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Homininae (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2023)
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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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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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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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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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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Evolutionary neuroscience (redirect from History of evolutionary neuroscience)
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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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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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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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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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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Corvidae (section Systematics, taxonomy, and evolution)
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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Cat intelligence (redirect from Intelligence of cats)
intelligence Animal 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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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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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 Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory...
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Evolutionary psychology (redirect from Bibliography of evolution and human behavior)
number Evolution of the brain List of evolutionary psychologists Evolutionary origin of religions Evolutionary psychology and culture Molecular evolution Primate...
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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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The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum...
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Paleoneurobiology (category Interdisciplinary branches of neuroscience)
Paleoneurobiology is the study of brain evolution by analysis of brain endocasts to determine endocranial traits and volumes. Considered a subdivision of neuroscience...
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