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Cranial factors in neocortical evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Geoffrey O'Shea
Geoffrey O'Shea*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO80523
*
goshea@lamar.colostate.edu
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Abstract:

Our understanding of paleoneurology can benefit through considerations of how ontogenetic patterns of skull suture ossification can limit the phylogenetic expansion of underlying brain tissue to specific regions. Additionally, the influence of biochemical, rather than biomechanical, mechanisms on skull suture morphogenesis enable a reconceptualization of the skull as an independent evolutionary system from the brain.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 566
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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