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Postpleistocene evolution of the brain?
Abstract
The number of extraneurons (Nc) has been calculated with the formulae of Jerison ('63) for prehistoric population samples to check the hypothesis that Nc may not only increase by increasing of cranial capacity but also by decreasing of body‐weight (gracilisation). Body weight of skeletal populations has been estimated by the formula of Debetz ('67). Samples from the Western part of Europe and Egypt support the hypothesis, but Eastern europoid samples display opposite relations: Nc increases with robusticity. It seems (as Jerison already suggested) that Nc is no measurement of the level of behavior in the populations of H. sapiens; but it may point towards allometric differences between West and East, which are also known for other characters.
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“both absolute and relative brain size have decreased since the end of the Pleistocene (Schwidetzky, 1976;Wiercinski, 1979;Beals et al., 1984;Henneberg, 1988;Henneberg and Steyn, 1993;Ruff et al., 1997;Bailey and Geary, 2009;Hawks, 2011;Bednarik, 2014;Liu et al., 2014;Bruner and Gleeson, 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schwidetzky, I.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Schwidetzky, I.
- Venue
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1976-11
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 605-611
- ISSN
- 0002-9483 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-8644
- OpenAlex
- W2077583760
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Keywords
- brain evolution, cranial capacity, body weight, allometry, human, prehistoric humans
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