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A recent model of the timing in which neural developmental events occur in a variety of mammals has shown high predictability of the order and duration of these events across species when appropriately computed. The model, originally derived to study the developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change in the nervous system, is adapted in this paper to predict the course of those events in the developing human, a sequence that has been difficult to determine using non‐invasive neuroanatomical techniques. Using a modified version of our original regression model, we generate predicted times of occurrence for a large number of developmental events in the human embryo and fetus, and include a chart of comparable events for macaque monkeys. We discuss a bidirectional variability in the original model which allowed us to identify limbic and cortical primate neural events that are significantly deviant from …