What is it about?
One of the areas of the basal ganglia is the striatum--it incorporates signaling along a critically important pathway, the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward pathway. That pathway has unique features in humans which greatly impact our social behavior.
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Why is it important?
This paper describes some of those unique characters and why they have been central to our social evolution.
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This page is a summary of: A neurochemical hypothesis for the origin of hominids, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719666115.
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