How Can Development and Plasticity Contribute to Understanding Evolution of the Human Brain?

• Main Author: Fernanda Tovar-Moll (auth)
• Other Authors: Roberto Lent (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; brain evolution; Evo-Devo; Brain Development; neuroplasticity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Humans usually attribute themselves the prerogative of being the pinnacle of evolution. They have large brains with many billion neurons and glial cells, trillions of synapses and besides all, a plastic hardware that may change either subtly or strongly in response to the external environment and in...