Fossil evidence favors a role for vision in the modular evolution of the primate neocortex (doi.org)
Neocortical expansion is a key innovation of crown primates, although fossil evidence for how the neocortex has evolved remains elusive. We studied neocortical evolution using virtual brain endocasts ...
🦴 Fossils rewrite primate brain evolution
Studying Eocene to Miocene skull casts, researchers found neocortex size grew in step across primate branches, fastest in tarsiers and monkeys. The frontal lobe grew at an ordinary rate.
🔗 doi.org/10.1126/science.aee3541
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