… the human brain and that of other mammals. Recent studies implicate evolutionary changes
… functional differences between our brain and that of our ancient and more recent ancestors. …

… had important roles in the evolutionary enlargement of the human brain. We discuss the …
in human brain evolution. We also suggest the converse strategy — that evolutionary analysis …

… brain evolution. Through comparative genomics, tantalizing insights regarding … brain evolution
have emerged. The genetic changes that potentially underlie human brain evolution span …

… brains generally evolve. In doing so, I highlight not one law that solely governs how all brains
… This pluralistic perspective seems radical if one thinks of evolution as proceeding steadily …

… of brain evolution, what exactly do we imagine to be evolving? … If some change in brain
structure is selected for, how can … of the phylogenetic history of brains than they do with some …

… of the details of human brain evolution. Hominid brain evolution may be studied from two …
on study and comparison of a series of extant primate brains, and (2) paleoneurology, which …

… act as constraints on brain evolution and through this … on brain evolution; we use path
analysis to show that, in order to evolve a large neocortex, a species must first evolve a large brain …

… Explanations of the evolution of novel structures and new … specialization and size changes
in brain evolution are explained by a … reorganizations that characterize human brain evolution. …

… indicates that the rapid brain evolution observed with the … of evolutionary change in brain
size such that brain sizes of … rapid evolution of brain size at this stage of human evolution …

Four major questions can be asked about vertebrate brain evolution: 1) What major changes
have occurred in neural organization and function? 2) When did these changes occur? 3) …