Armstrong E
Brain Res. 1986 Jan 8;362(2):394-7. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(86)90471-3.
Major paradigms about human evolution stress the increase of cognitive capabilities, while considering our emotional and limbic systems to be relatively unchanged. Morphometric analyses of two limbic structures, the anterior thalamic nuclei (AP) and the medial mamillary bodies (MB), in 27 primate species show, however, that: human nuclei are as large as MB or larger AP than differences in anthropoid brain sizes predict; and prosimians and anthropoid patterns differ.
关于人类进化的主要范式强调认知能力的提高，同时认为我们的情感和边缘系统相对没有变化。然而，对27种灵长类动物的两种边缘结构——丘脑前核（AP）和乳头体（MB）进行的形态测量分析表明：人类的丘脑前核与乳头体一样大，或者比类人猿大脑大小差异所预测的更大；原猴亚目动物和类人猿的模式不同。
