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Increases in Brain Size Occurred within Human Lineages Comprising Single Species, New Study Reveals


New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain size increase) across 7 million years of hominin evolution arose from increases within individual species.

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