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New Research Explores Origins of Structurally Modern Human Brain | Anthropology, Paleoanthropology – Sci-News.com
Modern human brain structures emerged later than the first dispersal of the genus Homo from Africa, and were probably in place by 1.7 to 1.5 million years ago in…
Modern human brain structures emerged later than the first dispersal of the genus Homo from Africa, and were probably in place by 1.7 to 1.5 million years ago in African Homo populations, according to new research led by the University of Zurich.
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Image credit: M. Ponce de León & C. Zollikofer, University of Zurich.
The human brain is larger than and structurally different from the…
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