Genetic assimilation in the evolution of hominin neuroplasticity

• Authors: Luiz do Valle Miranda

Title variants

PL

Asymilacja genetyczna w ewolucji neuroplastyczności homininów

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The discovery and popularisation of the study of different evolutionary processes outside the current evolutionary framework provide researchers of different areas with new tools to make progress in their field. In this work, I explored how genetic assimilation may have played a role in human evolution, more specifically the evolution of our brains. The results indicate that human brain evolution concerning neuroplasticity fits within a context of genetic assimilation. However, further studies in comparative genomics and neurogenetics are needed to fully understand how the evolutionary changes happened at the genetic level.

PL

Odkrycie i popularyzacja badań różnych procesów ewolucyjnych poza obecnymi ramami ewolucyjnymi zapewniają naukowcom reprezentującym różne dyscypliny wiedzy nowe narzędzia do osiągania postępu na polu ich własnych dyscyplin. W niniejszym opracowaniu przebadano jaką rolę mogła odegrać asymilacja genetyczna w ewolucji człowieka, a dokładniej w ewolucji naszego mózgu. Wyniki wskazują, że ewolucja ludzkiego mózgu w zakresie neuroplastyczności przystaje do kontekstu asymilacji genetycznej. Konieczne są jednak dalsze badania w zakresie genomiki porównawczej, by w pełni zrozumieć zmiany ewolucyjne, jakie dokonały się na poziomie genetycznym.

Keywords

EN

genetic assimilation; neuroplasticity; human evolution; extended evolutionary synthesis

PL

asymilacja genetyczna; neuroplastyczność; ewolucja człowieka; rozszerzona synteza ewolucyjna; asymilacja genetyczna; neuroplastyczność; ewolucja człowieka; rozszerzona synteza ewolucyjna

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 59-71

Dates

published

2019-06-30

Contributors

author

Luiz do Valle Miranda

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/seb.2019.17.2.05