What's the fuss over human frontal lobe evolution?

Chet C. Sherwood; Jeroen B. Smaers

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.008

What's the fuss over human frontal lobe evolution?

Chet C. Sherwood
, Jeroen B. Smaers

Anthropology

Stony Brook University

George Washington University

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Abstract

Evolutionary neuroscientists seek to understand what makes the human neocortex special aside from its extraordinary expansion. New analyses find that the frontal lobes of humans are not relatively enlarged given our species' brain size. But are statistical cut-offs masking biologically meaningful changes in the size of the human prefrontal cortex?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	432-433
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	17
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.008
State	Published - Sep 2013

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