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Part II: THE PRIMATE EVOLUTIONARY CONTINUITY
Pages 57-58

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... In Chapter 4, Robert Clark and Larry Squire offer a history of the scientific debate provoked by Owen's (1859) proposal of a lack of evolutionary continuity between human and other primates on the grounds of several brain traits, hippocampus minor (HM)
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... Comparisons between human and macaque neocortical development show differences that might relate the relatively prolonged neuronal maturation in humans to the enhancement of social learning and transmission of cultural practices, including language. However, few data exist on the ontogenetic neural development of the apes that are more closely related to humans.
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  • neuromodulatory regulation
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  • evolutionary convergence
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  • steve chang
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  • tific debate
  • animal models
  • brain traits
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  • debate provoked

  • macaque neocortical
  • robert clark
  • social learning
  • differential regulation
  • human lineages

  • discuss eventual
  • offer clues
  • neuroethological approach
  • human phylogenies
  • peter carruthers

  • human memory
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  • eventual divergences


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