scholarly journals Play as the Foundation of Human Intelligence: The Illuminating Role of Human Brain Evolution and Development and Implications for Education and Child Development.

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P. Blaisdell
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Evolution ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
Human Brain Evolution

Probing human brain evolution and development in organoids

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano L Giandomenico ◽  
Madeline A Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Evolution ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
Human Brain Evolution

scholarly journals What Behavioral Abilities Emerged at Key Milestones in Human Brain Evolution? 13 Hypotheses on the 600-Million-Year Phylogenetic History of Human Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max S. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Brain Evolution ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Human Brain Evolution ◽  
Cognitive Faculties ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evolutionary Neuroscience ◽  
Shed Light

This paper presents 13 hypotheses regarding the specific behavioral abilities that emerged at key milestones during the 600-million-year phylogenetic history from early bilaterians to extant humans. The behavioral, intellectual, and cognitive faculties of humans are complex and varied: we have abilities as diverse as map-based navigation, theory of mind, counterfactual learning, episodic memory, and language. But these faculties, which emerge from the complex human brain, are likely to have evolved from simpler prototypes in the simpler brains of our ancestors. Understanding the order in which behavioral abilities evolved can shed light on how and why our brains evolved. To propose these hypotheses, I review the available data from comparative psychology and evolutionary neuroscience.

Human brain evolution: food for thoughts

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 683-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim HM Saris ◽  
Steven B Heymsfield ◽  
William J Evans
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Evolution ◽  
Human Brain Evolution

scholarly journals Evolutionary modifications in human brain connectivity associated with schizophrenia

Brain ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (12) ◽  
pp. 3991-4002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn P van den Heuvel ◽  
Lianne H Scholtens ◽  
Siemon C de Lange ◽  
Rory Pijnenburg ◽  
Wiepke Cahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Connectivity ◽  
Brain Evolution ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Brain Functions ◽  
Human Brain Evolution ◽  
The Brain

See Vértes and Seidlitz (doi:10.1093/brain/awz353) for a scientific commentary on this article. Is schizophrenia a by-product of human brain evolution? By comparing the human and chimpanzee connectomes, van den Heuvel et al. demonstrate that connections unique to the human brain show greater involvement in schizophrenia pathology. Modifications in service of higher-order brain functions may have rendered the brain more vulnerable to dysfunction.

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