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New study changes our understanding of human brain evolution


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Apr. 8, 2021
We humans take vast pride in our brain, not that it’s helped us understand it. Now a new report in Science reveals that the unique structures of the human brain evolved later than thought – certainly after our species began venturing out of Africa 2 million years ago.
Contrasting our fond imaginings, the modern structure of the frontal cortex where we do our advanced-human things such as language hasn’t been with us since our evolution began after all.
We know this because it turns out that the first members of the Homo line to leave Africa – the diminutive primitive specimens found at Dmanisi, Georgia, dating to 1.8 million years ago – had frontal lobe structures like great apes, not like humans, according to a new study published in Science by Marcia Ponce de León of the University of Zurich and colleagues. ....

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