As only limited insight into behaviour is available from the archaeological record, much of
our understanding of historical changes in human cognition is restricted to identifying …

A high level of encephalization is critical to the human adaptive niche and emerged among
hominins over the course of the past 2 Myr. Evolving larger brains required important …

A large brain is a defining feature of modern humans, yet there is no consensus regarding
the patterns, rates and processes involved in hominin brain size evolution. We use a reliable …

How did the human mind evolve? How and when did we come to think in the ways we do?
The last thirty years have seen an explosion in research related to the brain and cognition …

The evolution of the human brain has been a combination of reorganization of brain
components and increases of brain size through both hyperplasia and hypertrophy during …

Early hominid brain morphology is reassessed from endocasts of Australopithecus africanus
and three species of Paranthropus, and new endocast reconstructions and cranial …

Evidence used to reconstruct the morphology and function of the brain (and the rest of the
central nervous system) in fossil hominin species comes from the fossil and archeological …

Increasing body and brain size constitutes a key macro-evolutionary pattern in the hominin
lineage, yet the mechanisms behind these changes remain debated. Hypothesized drivers …

Hominins that differ from Homo erectus, the Neanderthals, and recent humans are known
from Middle Pleistocene localities across the Old World. The taxonomic status of these …

In contrast to hominin encephalization, the final Pleistocene and Holocene reduction in
cranial volume has attracted very little attention and remains unexplained. Here it is …