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New paper: Why did human brain size evolve? A way forward

In a recent paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, KLI Senior Fellow Mauricio González-Forero and KLI alumna Aida Gómez-Robles (University College London) discuss a new explanation for evolution of large brain size in humans. Using in-silico experiments done in an evo-devo mathematical model that replicates major patterns of human development and evolution, Mauricio and Aida explain that brain size in humans, hitherto thought to be one of the greatest adaptations of all, instead evolves in the model as an evolutionary by-product of selection for reproductive capacity. (Click on the title to read more.)

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