The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and
develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich …

the claim of consistent hemispheric specialisations across classes of chordates is
undermined by the absence of population-based directional asymmetry of paw/hand use in …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

The human language function is not only based on the grey matter of circumscribed brain
regions in the frontal and the temporal cortex but moreover on the white matter fiber tracts …

The minicolumn is a continuing source of research and debate more than half a century after
it was identified as a component of brain organization. The minicolumn is a sophisticated …

Little is known about how the human brain differs from that of our closest relatives. To
investigate the genetic basis of human specializations in brain organization and cognition …

Since the last common ancestor shared by modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, the
lineage leading to Homo sapiens has undergone a substantial change in brain size and …

Understanding the genetic basis of the physical and behavioural traits that distinguish
humans from other primates presents one of the great new challenges in biology. Of the …

Few morphological differences have been identified so far that distinguish the human brain
from the brains of our closest relatives, the apes. Comparative analyses of the spatial …

Among the various asymmetrical structures of the human brain, the planum temporale, an
anatomical region associated with a variety of auditory and language‐related processes …