Evolution of the Human Brain .... fun Pictures
Neuropsychiatric diseases like schizophrenia are the result of processes acting on time scales of both an individual’s lifetime and our species’ history. For this reason, insights into human brain development or brain evolution in general can also help to elucidate related aspects of brain disorders. Specifically, the mammalian brain is characterized by a six-layered cerebral cortex which folds up with increasing brain size. Abnormalities in the thickness and folding of the cerebral cortex have been observed in patients with schizophrenia, autism, William’s syndrome, and other medical conditions. We therefore investigate the common principles underlying these processes by quantifying brain shape, both in humans (particularly children) and across species (particularly other primates) on the basis of data obtained with Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
What evolutionary forces drove this dramatic increase in brain size? Many theories have been put forward over the years, a popular one being that our ancestors' brains expanded to accommodate the faculty of language. A fossilized skull fragment belonging to a human ancestor that lived several million years ago provides yet more clues. A new analysis of the skull suggests that human brain evolution may have been shaped by changes in the female reproductive system that occurred when our ancestors stood upright.
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all that is from
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-has-human-brain-evolved/and
http://dbm.neuro.uni-jena.de/But some of these evolved human species is trying
ITS best to go back in time and
join Baboons with stupid religions and their stupid books that teach Baboonism and Baboonology...