"As large as you need and as small as you can": Implications of the brain size of 'Homo floresiensis'

Title
"As large as you need and as small as you can": Implications of the brain size of 'Homo floresiensis'
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Davidson, Iain
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-9704
Email: idavidso@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:idavidso
Editor
Editor(s): Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Edition
1
Series
Studies in language companion series
UNE publication id
une:2064
Abstract
In this chapter I discuss the brain size of 'Homo floresiensis in light of the interpretation of changes in both quantities for other hominins from three million years ago to the present. Considering selection against both large brains and against small brains emphasises the likely role of cognition in the evolution of brain size.
Link
Citation
Mental States: Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature, v.1, p. 35-42
ISBN
9789027231024
Start page
35
End page
42

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