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Oxygen and the Spark of Human Brain Evolution: a Complex Systems Account

2022-06-01

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Scientific theories on the functioning and dysfunction of the human brain require a good understanding of both its development — before and after birth, and through maturation to adulthood — and its evolution from the ancestral primate brain. Adopting a complex-systems approach, here we propose that the apparent uniqueness of humans’ cognitive capacities might best be understood as emerging from...

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Literature Corpus work: c1f6c45f-2df8-55a3-9a14-a83fbe894679
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202206.0002.v1

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