The international group of scientists conducted a study during which he found out when and where the modern human brain was formed, Zurich University reports.
It is noted that the first populations of the genus Homo appeared in Africa about 2.5 million years ago, they have already walked on two legs, but their brain was twice as smaller than that of modern people.
“According to our analysis, modern structures of the human brain have been formed only 1.5-1.7 million years ago – in the African populations of Homo,” said Christoph Zurich University of Anthropological Institute, the Interfax quotes it.
researchers studied at the Homo Skull Computer Tone, which lived in Africa and Asia from 1 to 2 million years ago. They then compared fossil data with reference data of man-like monkeys and people.
In addition to sizes, the human brain is significantly different from the brain of man-like monkeys, especially by the location and organization of individual areas of the authority.
“Typically human are primarily those regions in the field of forehead, which are responsible for planning and performing complex models of thinking and actions, and ultimately for the language,” notes the author of the study Marcia De Leon, also representing the Anthropological Institute Zurich University.
It is noted that 1.7 million years ago culture in Africa, as can be seen because of the finds of various stone tools, have become more complex and diverse. “During this period, the earliest forms of the human language were likely to develop,” Ponce de Leon believes.
Fossil finds with Java indicate that new populations were extremely successful. Already soon after his appearance in Africa, they spread to Southeast Asia.