Did Neandertals Have Autism? A Short Video
I recently did an interview with Seth Chagi of World of Paleoanthropology on our paper on the roles of Neandertal DNA in autism. The video did well and folks from […]
Tag Archives: human evolution
Do Humans Really Walk Better without Tails? Throwing a Gouldian Spandrel into the Works
Most of you undoubtedly know me as an autism researcher. But my work has brought me into close contact with the field of Evolutionary Biology as I’ve studied the evolution […]
What’s Unique about Human Brain Evolution?
Even though we’ve been separated by about 450 million years of evolution, humans and zebrafish share homology in roughly 70% of their genes. Yet in spite of this commonality, few […]
Specific Genetic Enhancers May Have Contributed to Larger Brains in Humans
Though humans don’t have the largest and most complex brains of the mammals (those distinctions go to the sperm whale and the elephant, respectively), the complexity of our language and […]
BRAINS, BRAINS, BRAINS!!! Evolution of the Human and Mammalian Brain
Why is the brain so fascinating? As far as humans go, even though paleoanthropologists consider “bipedalism” to be the earliest characteristic which made the line of Homo unique, we all […]
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