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SUBMITTER: Ponce de Leon MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2533682 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ponce de León Marcia S MS Golovanova Lubov L Doronichev Vladimir V Romanova Galina G Akazawa Takeru T Kondo Osamu O Ishida Hajime H Zollikofer Christoph P E CP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080908 37
From birth to adulthood, the human brain expands by a factor of 3.3, compared with 2.5 in chimpanzees [DeSilva J and Lesnik J (2006) Chimpanzee neonatal brain size: Implications for brain growth in Homo erectus. J Hum Evol 51: 207-212]. How the required extra amount of human brain growth is achieved and what its implications are for human life history and cognitive development are still a matter of debate. Likewise, because comparative fossil evidence is scarce, when and how the modern human pat ...[more]