Early hominid brain evolution: a new look at old endocasts.

Abstract:

:Early hominid brain morphology is reassessed from endocasts of Australopithecus africanus and three species of Paranthropus, and new endocast reconstructions and cranial capacities are reported for four key specimens from the Paranthropus clade. The brain morphology of Australopithecus africanus appears more human like than that of Paranthropus in terms of overall frontal and temporal lobe shape. These new data do not support the proposal that increased encephalization is a shared feature between Paranthropus and early Homo. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that Australopithecus africanus could have been ancestral to Homo, and have implications for assessing the tempo and mode of early hominid neurological and cognitive evolution.

journal_name

J Hum Evol

authors

Falk D,Redmond JC Jr,Guyer J,Conroy C,Recheis W,Weber GW,Seidler H

doi

10.1006/jhev.1999.0378

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-05-01 00:00:00

pages

695-717

issue

5

eissn

0047-2484

issn

1095-8606

pii

S0047-2484(99)90378-0

journal_volume

38

pub_type

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