Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution

The evolution of human cognition has been inferred from anthropological discoveries and estimates of brain size from fossil skulls. A more direct measure of cognition would be cerebral metabolic rate, which is proportional to cerebral blood flow rate (perfusion). The hominin cerebrum is supplied alm...

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Published in:	Royal Society Open Science
Main Authors:	Roger S. Seymour, Vanya Bosiocic, Edward P. Snelling
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Royal Society 2016-01-01
Subjects:	brain perfusion hominin evolution cognition cerebral cortex
Online Access:	https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160305