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The Significance of the Increased Size of the Cerebrum in Recent as Compared with Extinct Animals

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  • Lankester, Edwin Ray
    In Sir Edwin Ray Lankester

    In “The Significance of the Increased Size of the Cerebrum in Recent as Compared with Extinct Animals” (1899), Lankester emphasized that an inherited ability to learn, allowing cultural advances to be transmitted between generations socially, was an important factor in human evolution. His discovery of flint…

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