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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 883–890 (1 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrn2008
Patterns of neural stem and progenitor cell division may underlie evolutionary cortical expansion
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Abstract
The dramatic evolutionary expansion of the cerebral cortex of Homo sapiens underlies our unique higher cortical functions, and therefore bears on the ultimate issue of what makes us human. Recent insights into developmental events during early proliferative stages of cortical development indicate how neural stem and progenitor cells might interact to produce cortical expansion during development, and could shed light on evolutionary changes in cortical structure.
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