On the emergence of modern humans: proposition and search for the underlying mechanism
Starts 6 Jun 2013 17:30
Ends 6 Jun 2013 20:00
Central European Time
ICTP
Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
Strada Costiera, 11
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Abstract. Anthropological evidence shows a rather recent emergence of the modern cognitive human within a genetic and anatomic already evolved homo-sapiens. I will describe a proposition for the mind-brain mechanism that could underly that transition, as well as the ongoing work to identify and observe it by testing humans in laboratory conditions.