Human Brain Evolution

The evolution of the human brain and cognitive ability is one of the central themes of anthropology. Human Brain Evolution discusses the emergence of human cognition at a conceptual level, describing it as a process of long adaptive stasis interrupted by short periods of cognitive advance. These advances were not linear and directed, but were acquired indirectly as part of changing human behaviors.

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