Human evolution expanded brains to increase expertise capacity, not IQ

Psycoloquy

Volumn 10, Issue , 1999, Pages

  Skoyles, John R ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Brain size; Evolution; Expertise; Hemispherectomy; Homo erectus; Individual differences; Intelligence; IQ; Language; Microcephaly; MRI volumetrics; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010027896     PISSN: 10550143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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