brain evolution
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Brain Evolution
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There is something unusual about the human brain and its behavioral capacity
The neocortex is disproportionately large in
humans
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Neuroscientists have paid rather little attention to the study of brain evolution
Neuroscientists
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Clade
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Theories are highly speculativeThere is a single goal or direction to evolution
Brain Evolution
Neuroscience
Misconceptions about Brain Evolution
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Interestingly, domestic
animals with our efforts
to improve a wild stock, generally
have reduced
brain size.
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Butthead
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Tarsiers
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Neocortex Origins
Not that new at all. Similar to the Dorsal Cortex in
birds and reptiles
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V.
Dorsal Cortex Neocortex
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Ancient Neocortex were likely to not have the differentiated layers and
neuron types
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Evolution of Primates:The early years
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Evolution of Primates:Improvements
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Old and New world monkeys developed their trichromatic vision separately.
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Tarsiers and Owl monkeys are secondarily nocturnal
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Hominines and Chimpanzees
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Early Primates
Early primates were lemur-like in body form, and their brains were shaped like those of present-day lemurs, although smaller.
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V3 DM MT
V1
Visual SystemSomatosensory Cortex
VP
S1 S2
Ancestral StateDerived State
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Most of the large number of specializations that likely evolved in early primates or their
immediate ancestors
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Evolution of Hominin Brains
Human brains are not symmetrical in shape, so that the planum temporale, the sheet of
cortex on the lower surface of the lateral sulci, is usually larger in the left cereberal
hemisphere than on the right.
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Interestingly, however, great apes exhibit the same asymmetry of the temporal lobe as humans, despite their lack of language.
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Australopithecus~600 cc
Homo habilis ~800 cc
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Homo erectus~1000 cc
Homo sapiens~1400 cc
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The issues of a Big Brain
Inverse Ninja Law: The more ninjas there are, the weaker each
individual ninja is
Selection has to be based on a few developmental
mechanisms
Higher metabolic cost
may require better diet.
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Large brains generally devote much more of their mass to connections. Small morphological adjustments
dramatically change the area affected.
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Primates brains simply have many more neurons than rodent brains of the same size