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Rapid expansion of synaptic complexity as a key contributor to cognitive growth in early humans
2025-04-15
Abstract excerpt
Primates have been evolving for over 50 million years. At some point, humans made an unusually large evolutionary leap, giving rise to abilities like the creation of tools, intricate art and complex language. The neuronal synapse, a key player in information processing and brain plasticity, has largely been ignored as a potential factor in this process. Here we used the genomic databases of ancestral hominins to c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 18a8b4bb-cdf4-5f8f-9fce-ad3bd708baa5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.04.09.648028