The results of a new and surprising study contradict the more accepted belief about how primates, including humans, came to have such large and sophisticated brains. So far, there was the conviction that the frontal lobe, the main “motor” of complex thought, boosted the expansion of the primate neocortex. The study is the work of a team headed by Richard F. Kay, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Neocortex (the outer and f…
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The results of a new and surprising study contradict the more accepted belief about how primates, including humans, came to have such large and sophisticated brains. So far, there was the conviction that the frontal lobe, the main “motor” of complex thought, boosted the expansion of the primate neocortex. The study is the work of a team headed by Richard F. Kay, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Neocortex (the outer and f…