Relaxed genetic control of cortical organization in human brains compared with chimpanzees

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 48, 2015, Pages 14799-14804

  Gomez Robles, Aida ^a,b   Hopkins, William D ^c,d   Schapiro, Steven J ^e   Sherwood, Chet C ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Altriciality; Brain evolution; Hominins; Neocortex; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SURFACE AREA; SYLVIAN FISSURE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948672557     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512646112     Document Type: Article

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