ReviewProgress in brain research2012
Embracing covariation in brain evolution: large brains, extended development, and flexible primate social systems.
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- The Fractal Geometry of the Human Brain: An Evolutionary Perspective.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Article
- Life history impacts on infancy and the evolution of human social cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Dendritic Spines: Synaptogenesis and Synaptic Pruning for the Developmental Organization of Brain Circuits.Advances in neurobiology · 2023Article
- Multilevel atlas comparisons reveal divergent evolution of the primate brain.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Comparative analysis reveals distinctive epigenetic features of the human cerebellum.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
- Invariant Synapse Density and Neuronal Connectivity Scaling in Primate Neocortical Evolution.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- When ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: Fixed neurodevelopmental sequence of manipulative skills among primates.Science advances · 2020Article
- Maternal investment, life histories and the evolution of brain structure in primates.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- The Protracted Maturation of Associative Layer IIIC Pyramidal Neurons in the Human Prefrontal Cortex During Childhood: A Major Role in Cognitive Development and Selective Alteration in Autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- The Cultural Brain Hypothesis: How culture drives brain expansion, sociality, and life history.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Brain evolution and development: adaptation, allometry and constraint.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Innovation in the collective brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Comparison of Dolphins' Body and Brain Measurements with Four Other Groups of Cetaceans Reveals Great Diversity.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2016Article
- Brains, brawn and sociality: a hyaena's tale.Animal behaviour · 2015Article
- Homozygous loss of DIAPH1 is a novel cause of microcephaly in humans.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2015Article
- The evolution of self-control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
- Allocating structure to function: the strong links between neuroplasticity and natural selection.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- Neocortical calretinin neurons in primates: increase in proportion and microcircuitry structure.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2014Review
- Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2014Review
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Abstract
Brain size, body size, developmental length, life span, costs of raising offspring, behavioral complexity, and social structures are correlated in mammals due to intrinsic life-history requirements. Dissecting variation and direction of causation in this web of relationships often draw attention away from the factors that correlate with basic life parameters. We consider the "social brain hypothesis," which postulates that overall brain and the isocortex are selectively enlarged to confer social abilities in primates, as an example of this enterprise and pitfalls. We consider patterns of brain scaling, modularity, flexibility of brain organization, the "leverage," and direction of selection on proposed dimensions. We conclude that the evidence supporting selective changes in isocortex or brain size for the isolated ability to manage social relationships is poor. Strong covariation in size and developmental duration coupled with flexible brains allow organisms to adapt in variable social and ecological environments across the life span and in evolution.
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