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Pattern and rate in the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of modern human brain size

2022-04-04

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Fourteen studies of brain size evolution in Plio-Pleistocene hominins published over the past fifty years show substantial long-term increase in endocranial volume (ECV) for the broad lineage leading to modern humans. The median generation-to-generation step rate for a consensus time series of ECV values, h 0 = 0.15 standard deviations per generation, is almost identical to the median step rate observed in modern...

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Literature Corpus work: 7cfd9782-c982-5d0e-87f5-d55293ccbf6a
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1467159/v1

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