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How to grow a human

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Michael C. Corballis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. m.corballis@auckland.ac.nz

Abstract

I enlarge on the theme that the brain mechanisms required for languageand other aspects of the human mind evolved through selective changes in the regulatory genes governing growth. Extension of the period of postnatal growth increases the role of the environment in structuring the brain, and spatiotemporal programming (heterochrony) ofgrowth might explain hierarchical representation, hemispheric specialization, and perhaps sex differences.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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