Link: Profile of Tilly Edinger
Smithsonian has done a nice profile of Tilly Edinger, one of the most important paleontologists of the twentieth century: “The Woman Who Shaped the Study of ...
All posts tagged with brain evolution
Quote: Stanley Garn on the evolution of brain size
Stanley Garn, writing in “Culture and the direction of human evolution” (1963: 222):
Notable: Brain growth in Homo erectus
Notable paper: Cofran, Z. and DeSilva, J. 2015. A neonatal perspective on Homo erectus brain growth. Journal of Human Evolution (in press) doi:10.1016/j.jhev...
To fish or not to fish
This summer I pointed to an article about the FwJj20 locality at Koobi Fora, which provides the earliest known evidence of systematic fish exploitation in th...
Forget EQ. Forget ‘Machiavellian intelligence’.
Evan MacLean and colleagues write this week in PNAS about the evolution of self-control.
Brains in a haystack
An essay by Gary Marcus, in the new online science magazine, Nautilus: “Where uniqueness lies”.
Sahelanthropus brain
Kate Wong has been reporting from the Paleoanthropology Society meetings in Honolulu. Today she describes a presentation about the endocast shape of the Toum...
Thinking simply
Vaughan Bell has a nice piece in the Guardian on folk psychology – how ordinary people tend to think about their own thinking: “Our brains, and how they’re n...