Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: Implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis
(2010)
Journal Article
Montgomery, S. H., Capellini, I., Barton, R. A., & Mundy, N. I. (2010). Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: Implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis. BMC biology, 8(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-9
Background: Brain size is a key adaptive trait. It is often assumed that increasing brain size was a general evolutionary trend in primates, yet recent fossil discoveries have documented brain size decreases in some lineages, raising the question of... Read More about Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: Implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis.