A.W Wright

Symbiotically Mediated Encephalization

The emergence of the modern human neocortex represents one of the most extraordinary developmental transformations in vertebrate evolution. Within a comparatively brief evolutionary interval, the human lineage underwent exceptional encephalization, prolonged maturation, altered c...

Symbiotically Mediated Heterochrony in Primate and Human Evolution

Human evolution exhibits an unusually prolonged and integrated developmental trajectory. Delayed maturation, extended juvenile dependency, slow life history, encephalisation, craniofacial reduction and altered bodily proportions are commonly interpreted within a heterochronic fra...

Evolutionary Heterochrony and the Neural Architecture of Self

Human evolution is characterised not only by exceptional encephalisation but by an equally exceptional trajectory of prolonged heterochrony. While this developmental trajectory is widely recognised to have delayed maturation and extended cortical development, its consequences for...