A Brief History of the Human Brain
Friday, May 12, 2023
Friday, May 12, 2023
The only direct physical evidence for human brain evolution comes from fossilized bony braincases. In this 92nd James Arthur Lecture, Marcia S. Ponce de León and Christoph P.E. Zollikofer—researchers from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, who co-developed Computer-Assisted Paleoanthropology (CAP) as a new field in biological anthropology—discuss the fossil evidence for brain evolution since humans branched off the great ape tree about 7 million years ago.
Find out more about how fossil braincases are studied, and how comparing fossil data with data from living humans and apes has helped uncover key events in brain and related cognitive evolution.