Massive Modularity and Brain Evolution.
Quartz (2002) argues that some recent findings about the evolution of the brain (Finlay and Darlington 1995) are inconsistent with evolutionary psychologists' massive modularity hypothesis. In substance, Quartz contends that since the volume of the neocortex evolved in a concerted manner, natural se...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 825 - 839 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2007
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