Evolution of the neocortex

Findings of Comparative Neuro-Psychology

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SOCIOBIOLOGY

Homage to the Tree Shrew

“The cerebral cortex, of all parts of the central nervous system, must be regarded as the most plastic in recent evolution, reflecting new behavioral requirements of niches carved out by increasingly complex relations between predator and prey, and the increasing demands for more subtle relationships within the species.”   Harting  (1973) ~>[Read more]