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An economic model and evidence of the evolution of human intelligence in the Middle Pleistocene: Climate change and assortative mating

A main objective of this paper is to provide the first model of how climate change, working through sexual selection, could have led to dramatic increases in hominin brain size, and presumably intelligence, in the Middle Pleistocene. The model is built using core elements from the field of family ec...

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Autor principal: Petersen, Bruce C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10395973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37531351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287964