1. From fossils to mind
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de Sousa, A., Beaudet, A., Calvey, T., Bardo, A., Benoit, J., Charvet, C., Dehay, C., Gómez-Robles, A., Gunz, P., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2350-4450, Heuer, K., van den Heuvel, M., Hurst, S., Lauters, P., Reed, D., Salagnon, M., Sherwood, C., Ströckens, F., Tawane, M., Todorov, O., Toro, R., Wei, Y., de Sousa, Alexandra A [0000-0003-2379-3894], Beaudet, Amélie [0000-0002-9363-5966], Calvey, Tanya [0000-0002-7540-2130], Bardo, Ameline [0000-0003-1840-6423], Gómez-Robles, Aida [0000-0002-8719-2660], Gunz, Philipp [0000-0002-2350-4450], Heuer, Katja [0000-0002-7237-0196], van den Heuvel, Martijn P [0000-0003-1570-1195], Hurst, Shawn [0000-0002-1458-759X], Lauters, Pascaline [0000-0003-3664-3182], Sherwood, Chet C [0000-0001-6711-449X], Todorov, Orlin S [0000-0002-0295-7557], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Bath Spa University, Laboratoire de paléontologie, évolution, paléoécosystèmes, paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM ), Université de Poitiers-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), University of Cape Town, Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Kent [Canterbury], University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg] (WITS), Auburn University (AU), Institut cellule souche et cerveau / Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute (SBRI), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), University College of London [London] (UCL), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig], Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Neuroanatomie Appliquée et Théorique / Applied and Theoretical Neuroanatomy (NAAT), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana University System, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives [Bordeaux] (IMN), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), The George Washington University (GW), Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf], Ditsong National Museum of Natural History [Pretoria, South Africa] (DNMNH), Macquarie University [Sydney], Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), A.Ba. was funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (grant number: ANR-20-CE27-0009-01). A.Be. was funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Research Development Grants for Y-Rated Researchers (grant number 129336) and the South Africa/France (PROTEA) Joint Research Programme (grant number 129923). C.C.S. was funded by NSF (EF-2021785, DRL-2219759) and NIH (NS092988, AG067419, HG011641). C.J.C. was funded by NIGMS COBRE (grant number 5P20GM103653). J.B. was funded by the NRF African Origins Platform. K.H. and R.T. were supported by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, projects NeuroWebLab (ANR-19-DATA-0025) and DMOBE (ANR-21-CE45-0016). K.H. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No101033485 (Individual Fellowship). O.S.T was funded by a Discovery Project Award (project number: DP210101324) funded by the Australian Government. P.G. was funded by the Max Planck Society (grant number M.IF.A.XXXX8103)., ANR-20-CE27-0009,PaleoBRAIN,Ressusciter le cerveau d'Homo erectus et des Néandertaliens(2020), ANR-19-DATA-0025,NeuroWebLab,Un laboratoire de neuroscience collectif: Au delà de FAIR(2019), and ANR-21-CE45-0016,DMOBE,Méchanique dévelopemental de l'évolution du cerveau(2021)
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[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,Archaeology ,Fossils ,Brain ,Artifacts ,Phylogeny ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences - Abstract
International audience; Fossil endocasts record features of brains from the past: size, shape, vasculature, and gyrification. These data, alongside experimental and comparative evidence, are needed to resolve questions about brain energetics, cognitive specializations, and developmental plasticity. Through the application of interdisciplinary techniques to the fossil record, paleoneurology has been leading major innovations. Neuroimaging is shedding light on fossil brain organization and behaviors. Inferences about the development and physiology of the brains of extinct species can be experimentally investigated through brain organoids and transgenic models based on ancient DNA. Phylogenetic comparative methods integrate data across species and associate genotypes to phenotypes, and brains to behaviors. Meanwhile, fossil and archeological discoveries continuously contribute new knowledge. Through cooperation, the scientific community can accelerate knowledge acquisition. Sharing digitized museum collections improves the availability of rare fossils and artifacts. Comparative neuroanatomical data are available through online databases, along with tools for their measurement and analysis. In the context of these advances, the paleoneurological record provides ample opportunity for future research. Biomedical and ecological sciences can benefit from paleoneurology’s approach to understanding the mind as well as its novel research pipelines that establish connections between neuroanatomy, genes and behavior.
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- 2023
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