Rapid evolution of the cerebellum in humans and other great apes

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 2440-2444

  Barton, Robert A ^a   Venditti, Chris ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; GENETICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908350531     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.056     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. P. Rakic Evolution of the neocortex: a perspective from developmental biology Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 10 2009 724 735
2. F.A. Azevedo, L.R. Carvalho, L.T. Grinberg, J.M. Farfel, R.E. Ferretti, R.E. Leite, W. Jacob Filho, R. Lent, and S. Herculano-Houzel Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain J. Comp. Neurol. 513 2009 532 541
3. C. Venditti, A. Meade, and M. Pagel Multiple routes to mammalian diversity Nature 479 2011 393 396
4. B.A. Whiting, and R.A. Barton The evolution of the cortico-cerebellar complex in primates: anatomical connections predict patterns of correlated evolution J. Hum. Evol. 44 2003 3 10
5. J.B. Smaers, J. Steele, and K. Zilles Modeling the evolution of cortico-cerebellar systems in primates Ann. N Y Acad. Sci. 1225 2011 176 190
6. R.A. Barton Embodied cognitive evolution and the cerebellum Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 367 2012 2097 2107
7. D.J. Povinelli, and J.G.H. Cant Arboreal clambering and the evolution of self-conception Q. Rev. Biol. 70 1995 393 421
8. D.L. Gebo Climbing, brachiation, and terrestrial quadrupedalism: historical precursors of hominid bipedalism Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 101 1996 55 92
9. J.K. Rilling, and T.R. Insel Evolution of the cerebellum in primates: differences in relative volume among monkeys, apes and humans Brain Behav. Evol. 52 1998 308 314
10. C.E. MacLeod, K. Zilles, A. Schleicher, J.K. Rilling, and K.R. Gibson Expansion of the neocerebellum in Hominoidea J. Hum. Evol. 44 2003 401 429
11. S. Herculano-Houzel Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons Front Neuroanat 4 2010 12 10.3389/fnana.2010.00012
12. B.L. Finlay, and R.B. Darlington Linked regularities in the development and evolution of mammalian brains Science 268 1995 1578 1584
13. K. Zhang, and T.J. Sejnowski A universal scaling law between gray matter and white matter of cerebral cortex Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97 2000 5621 5626
14. S.S.-H. Wang, J.R. Shultz, M.J. Burish, K.H. Harrison, P.R. Hof, L.C. Towns, M.W. Wagers, and K.D. Wyatt Functional trade-offs in white matter axonal scaling J. Neurosci. 28 2008 4047 4056
15. R.I.M. Dunbar, and S. Shultz Evolution in the social brain Science 317 2007 1344 1347
16. L.F. Koziol, D. Budding, N. Andreasen, S. D'Arrigo, S. Bulgheroni, H. Imamizu, M. Ito, M. Manto, C. Marvel, and K. Parker Consensus paper: the cerebellum's role in movement and cognition Cerebellum 13 2014 151 177
17. H. Imamizu, S. Miyauchi, T. Tamada, Y. Sasaki, R. Takino, B. Pütz, T. Yoshioka, and M. Kawato Human cerebellar activity reflecting an acquired internal model of a new tool Nature 403 2000 192 195
18. M.G. Leggio, F.R. Chiricozzi, S. Clausi, A.M. Tedesco, and M. Molinari The neuropsychological profile of cerebellar damage: the sequencing hypothesis Cortex 47 2011 137 144
19. P.L. Jackson, A.N. Meltzoff, and J. Decety Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking Neuroimage 31 2006 429 439
20. F. Sultan Why some bird brains are larger than others Curr. Biol. 15 2005 R649 R650
21. N. Ramnani The primate cortico-cerebellar system: anatomy and function Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 7 2006 511 522
22. B.C. Maseko, M.A. Spocter, M. Haagensen, and P.R. Manger Elephants have relatively the largest cerebellum size of mammals Anat. Rec. (Hoboken) 295 2012 661 672
23. F. Sultan, S. Hamodeh, and J.S. Baizer The human dentate nucleus: a complex shape untangled Neuroscience 167 2010 965 968
24. R.W. Byrne Culture in great apes: using intricate complexity in feeding skills to trace the evolutionary origin of human technical prowess Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 362 2007 577 585
25. D. Stout, and T. Chaminade Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 367 2012 75 87
26. V. Schmitt, B. Pankau, and J. Fischer Old world monkeys compare to apes in the primate cognition test battery PLoS ONE 7 2012 e32024
27. R.W. Byrne, and L.A. Bates Primate social cognition: uniquely primate, uniquely social, or just unique? Neuron 65 2010 815 830
28. R.W. Byrne Parsing behavior: a mundane origin for an extraordinary ability? N.J. Enfield, S. Levinson, Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction 2002 Berg Oxford 478 505
29. A. Londei, A. D'Ausilio, D. Basso, C. Sestieri, C.D. Gratta, G.L. Romani, and M.O. Belardinelli Sensory-motor brain network connectivity for speech comprehension Hum. Brain Mapp. 31 2010 567 580
30. H. Ackermann Cerebellar contributions to speech production and speech perception: psycholinguistic and neurobiological perspectives Trends Neurosci. 31 2008 265 272
31. W.T. Fitch The evolution of syntax: an exaptationist perspective Front. Evol. Neurosci. 3 2011 9 10.3389/fnevo.2011.00009
32. C. Arnold, L.J. Matthews, and C.L. Nunn The 10kTrees website: a new online resource for primate phylogeny Evol. Anthropol. 19 2010 114 118
33. C.L. Organ, A.M. Shedlock, A. Meade, M. Pagel, and S.V. Edwards Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs Nature 446 2007 180 184
34. S.H. Montgomery, I. Capellini, R.A. Barton, and N.I. Mundy Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis BMC Biol. 8 2010 10.1186/1741-7007-8-9
35. M.D. Pagel The maximum likelihood approach to reconstructing ancestral character states of discrete characters on phylogenies Syst. Biol. 48 1999 612 622
36. F.J. Rohlf Comparative methods for the analysis of continuous variables: geometric interpretations Evolution 55 2001 2143 2160
37. R.P. Freckleton, P.H. Harvey, and M.D. Pagel Phylogenetic analysis and comparative data: a test and review of evidence Am. Nat. 160 2002 712 726