Evolution of brain lateralization: A shared hominid pattern of endocranial asymmetry is much more variable in humans than in great apes.


Journal

Science advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Titre abrégé: Sci Adv
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101653440

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
02 2020
Historique:
received: 10 05 2019
accepted: 22 11 2019
entrez: 29 2 2020
pubmed: 29 2 2020
medline: 11 11 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Brain lateralization is commonly interpreted as crucial for human brain function and cognition. However, as comparative studies among primates are rare, it is not known which aspects of lateralization are really uniquely human. Here, we quantify both pattern and magnitude of brain shape asymmetry based on endocranial imprints of the braincase in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. Like previous studies, we found that humans were more asymmetric than chimpanzees, however so were gorillas and orangutans, highlighting the need to broaden the comparative framework for interpretation. We found that the average spatial asymmetry pattern, previously considered to be uniquely human, was shared among humans and apes. In humans, however, it was less directed, and different local asymmetries were less correlated. We, thus, found human asymmetry to be much more variable compared with that of apes. These findings likely reflect increased functional and developmental modularization of the human brain.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32110727
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax9935
pii: aax9935
pmc: PMC7021492
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

eaax9935

Subventions

Organisme : Austrian Science Fund FWF
ID : P 29397
Pays : Austria

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).

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Auteurs

Simon Neubauer (S)

Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Philipp Gunz (P)

Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Nadia A Scott (NA)

Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Jean-Jacques Hublin (JJ)

Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France.

Philipp Mitteroecker (P)

Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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