入來 篤史 先生(Dr. Atsushi Iriki) - Graduate School of Biostudies

Evolution of human intelligence by the triadic interaction
of neural, cognitive and ecological niches
入來 篤史 先生(Dr. Atsushi Iriki)
理化学研究所・脳科学総合研究センター シニアチームリーダー
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
1 月 20 日(火)14:45〜16:15 京都大学 医学・生命科学総合研究棟(G棟) 2階講義室 セミナー室 A(Bldg. G, Rm. A) Primate brain evolution has involved a continuous process of addition of new kinds of cognitive capacity, resulting in manufacture and use of tools and eventually human linguistic faculties. The dramatic expansion of the brain that accompanied additions of new functional areas would have supported such continuous evolution. Extended brain functions would then have driven rapid and drastic changes in the hominin ecological niche, which in turn demanded further brain resources to adapt to it. In this way, humans have constructed a novel niche in each of the ecological, cognitive and neural domains, whose interactions accelerated their individual evolution through a process of the “triadic niche-­‐construction”
Graduate School
of Biostudies
連絡先 細胞周期学分野 石川冬木 (内線) 4195 The talk will be given in English for a doctoral course class of “Frontier in Life
Sciences”, but general audience is very welcome.