Nov 8, 2018
Culture may explain why brains have become bigger
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: economics, neuroscience
A theory called the cultural brain hypothesis could explain extraordinary increases in brain size in humans and other animals over the last few million years, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology by Michael Muthukrishna of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University, and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and Harvard University.