Fossil Evidence Favors a Role for Vision in the Modular Evolution of the Primate Neocortex
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The research, published in Science magazine, has been directed by Richard F. Kay, emeritus professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The work, which has employed a unique collection of skulls coming mostly from [...]
Visual reliance drove diverse brain evolution among primates
A new study is challenging one of the most persistent assumptions about the evolution of the primate brain: that our lineage became exceptionally intelligent primarily because the frontal lobe expanded dramatically. Instead, fossil evidence analyzed by researchers at Duke University suggests that the major force behind the primate neocortex’s enlargement was vision. As primates evolved […]
A study of fossil skulls showed that a primate brain grew mainly from the development of vision rather than from a separate increase in the frontal lobe.
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