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Evo-devo dynamics of hominin brain size

2023-03-21

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Brain size tripled in the human lineage over four million years, but why this occurred remains uncertain. To advance our understanding of what caused hominin-brain expansion, I mechanistically replicate it in-silico by modelling the evolutionary and developmental (evo-devo) dynamics of hominin-brain size. I show that, starting from australopithecine brain and body sizes, the model recovers the evolution of brain a...

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Literature Corpus work: 123c1626-cafe-56ba-a027-fc1030f0e1fe
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.20.533421

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