How well does the cognitive buffer hypothesis explain hominin encephalisation?

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject Biology - Evolution, grade: 5.00, Anglia Ruskin University, language: English, abstract: The notion of the cognitive buffer hypothesis investigates and discusses at large the question of the hominin encephalisation. In order to test the various aspects of that idea in particular, a comparative analysis of the theories of different sc...