The evolution of the human brain
Abstract
The writer of this small monograph is one of the few persons trained in both anthropology and neurology. The book treats the evolution of the brain from Australopithecus to modern man. It does not attempt to go anterior to Australopithecus, but touches upon a few points in the evolution of the brain prior to the primate stage. Studied here are the final steps in the evolution of the human brain, neglecting the contemporary great apes which must vary considerably from the fossil forms...