Do Changes in Brain Volume Among Archaic Humans Reflect the Invention of Cooking?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Do Changes in Brain Volume Among Archaic Humans Reflect the Invention of Cooking?

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Dunbar R. I.M.¹

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1. University of Oxford

Abstract

Abstract The period around 400 ka coincided with a dramatic increase in hominin endocranial volume. Prior to this, there is some evidence to suggest that hominin brain sizes may have been subject to a thermally-driven energetic constraint. The increase in cranial volumes around 400 ka suggests that hominins achieved at least partial release from this constraint. This time point coincides with a sea change in the evidence for control of fire at hominin living sites, at least in the northern hemisphere. This may pinpoint the time at which hominins first began to cook regularly.

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Research Square Platform LLC

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