At the origin of Neanderthals and modern humans - Cerebral complexity and encephalization

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> The increase of brain dimensions and complexity has characterized the evolution of the genus Homo. According to the available fossil and genetic evidence, a crucial stage came before the divergence of Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo <italic>sapiens</italic> , during the Middle Pleistocene. We consider a specimen of about 400 ka, whose phenotype is at the roots of this divergence:...

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• Craniosynostoses
• Evolution, Molecular
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population
• Genome, Human
• Head
• Phenotype
• Skull

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Literature Corpus work

59e555ae-4001-5ea0-849e-227baca86b22

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2674955/v2