Evolutionary Neuroscience & Brain Evolution

Articles on the evolution of primate and human brains, including brain-body size relationships, cognitive evolution, neural overshoot phenomena, and the neuroscience of human ancestral development.

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Why Marmoset Brains Remain Smooth: Progenitor Cell Timing and Primate Cortical Folding in Nature Neuroscience

Verified research from the German Primate Center and a companion evolutionary analysis on how progenitor cell timing, developmental windows, and brain-lag dynamics shape whether a primate cortex folds or stays smooth.