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Paleoanthropology

the proposal that a cranial venous network for cooling the brain released a thermal constraint on brain size in Homo.

In paleoanthropology, radiator hypothesis refers to the proposal that a cranial venous network for cooling the brain released a thermal constraint on brain size in Homo. This meaning comes from Falk (1990) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1]

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References

Falk, D. (1990). Brain evolution inHomo:The “radiator” theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13(2), 333-344. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00078973

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