Robert Barton

@howbrainsevolve

Evolutionary anthropologist interested in 'organs of extreme perfection and complication' (brains, mainly)

Durham University dur.ac.uk/staff/r-a-bart… Joined November 2011

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Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve Nov 2

From language and memory to music, dance and narrative, humans display a remarkable capacity to understand and create complex sequences. How did such capacities evolve? Consider joining us in Bristol next April 5-6th to help us find out royalsociety.org/science-events…

royalsociety.org Sequences, behaviour and cognitive evolution | Royal Society Theo Murphy meeting organised by Professor Robert Barton, Professor Zanna Clay and Professor Nicky Clayton FRS

Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve Oct 26

That makes it about 3 - 0 to the cerebellum, versus frontal cortex nature.com/articles/s4200…

www.nature.com Anatomical differences in the brain organization between Australopithecus and early Homo based on... Communications Biology - Anatomical differences in the brain organization between Australopithecus and early Homo based on computational neuroanatomy

Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve Aug 6

The Visual Brain Hypothesis: my Perspective article in Science on a new paper by Richard Kay et al. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. DM me for access if required

www.science.org The visual brain hypothesis Virtual models of primate crania support visual system influence on brain size

Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve Jun 10

My talk on embodied cognitive evolution as part of the workshop on 'Topics in Intelligence at The Simons institute UC Berkeley:
youtube.com/watch?v=gH9uGx…

www.youtube.com Embodied cognitive evolution Robert Barton (University of Durham)https://simons.berkeley.edu/ta...

Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve Jan 13

Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon - full text of our new paper now available (open access) nature.com/articles/s4146…

www.nature.com Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon Nature Communications - Recent work has demonstrated that the relationship between brain and body mass across mammals is curvilinear. Here, the authors demonstrate this curvilinearity across 4679...