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Postcranial paleoneurology of the Diapsida

Journal of Zoology, 1995
The relationships between the size of the spinal cord and the size of the neural canal, and between gross spinal cord anatomy and locomotor style, were documented in a wide range of living diapsids. Observed relationships were used to make predictions about spinal cord anatomy and about limb use and position in related fossil taxa.
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[Paleoneurology: an evolving science?]

Medecine sciences : M/S
Dans le cadre du Master 2 Sciences du Vivant de l’université EPHE-PSL (cursus IMaGHE, parcours Physiopathologie Intégrative, PPI), des étudiants se sont confrontés à la rédaction d’une Nouvelle scientifique. Selon la spécialisation choisie par les étudiants (Neurosciences ou Cancérologie), l’équipe pédagogique leur a proposé de faire une synthèse d ...
Estrems Velazquez, Emma, Ferton, Evaëlle, Colombo, Antony   +2 more
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Introduction: Paleoneurology, Resurgent!

2014
Much has happened in the study of paleoneurology since the turn of the 20th Century involving increasing sophistication of digital methods which permit a variety of statistical and imaging techniques that are replacing the older methods of studying endocasts, which have relied upon plaster/latex rubber copies of fossil materials and mostly qualitative ...
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Paleoneurology of early archosauriforms and pseudosuchians

2022
Paleoneurology is a branch of paleontology that is dedicated to the study of the anatomy and evolution of the nervous system of extinct animals. You are reading the introduction to this book about paleoneurology because you are a descendent of a long line of primate ancestors that had evolved progressively larger brains, and that were eventually able ...
Von Baczko, Belen, Desojo, Julia Brenda, Trotteyn, Maria Jimena, Stocker, Michelle R.   +3 more
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Computed Tools for Paleoneurology

2014
The availability of computed tomographic (CT) scans of fossil crania has opened a new chapter in paleoneurology. CT scans have made it possible to create virtual imprints of the braincase—so called endocasts—on the computer, even when the endocranial cavity is filled with stone matrix.
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Recent Advances in Paleoneurology

1964
Publisher Summary This chapter illustrates the work being done in paleoneurology recently ascertained in organisms ranging from a crossopterygian fish of some 390 million years ago, Porolepis , to a mammal contemporary Hippopotamus. Paleoneurology cannot agree with the concept, perpetuated in the neontological literature, that increasingly ...
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Paleoneurology: Reconstructing the Nervous Systems of Dinosaurs

The Paleontological Society Special Publications, 1994
The most tangible clues to the existence and lifestyle of extinct vertebrates are the fossilized bones preserved in sedimentary rocks. During the past two hundred years, scientists have excavated, prepared and reassembled the often fragmentary remains of dinosaurs, enabling them to reconstruct the size, proportions and general anatomy of these Mesozoic
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Hominid brain evolution: The approach from paleoneurology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1980
AbstractThe recent literature on hominid paleoneurology is reviewed and critically assessed. Two theoretical approaches for interpreting hominid paleoneurological data are discussed: (1) identifying cerebral “rubicons” that theoretically distinguish hominids from other primates and (2) analyzing brain evolution in terms of “residual” encephalization ...
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Issues in neo- and paleoneurology of language

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1995
AbstractWilkins and Wakefield's hypothesis that language is fundamentally a cognitive rather than cominunicational adaptation is reasonable, but there are flaws in their anatomical and fossil evidence. Their analysis of reorganization also needs clarification. Finally, the origin of language ability must have occurred with australopithecine rather than
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Human Paleoneurology and the Evolution of the Parietal Cortex

Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2018
Paleoneurology deals with the study of brain anatomy in fossil species, as inferred from the morphology of their endocranial features. When compared with other living and extinct hominids, <i>Homo sapiens</i> is characterized by larger parietal bones and, according to the paleoneurological evidence, also by larger parietal lobes. The dorsal
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