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Sulci 3D mapping from human cranial endocasts: A powerful tool to study hominin brain evolution. [PDF]
Hum Brain Mapp, 2022 Three‐dimensional density maps as an innovative tool for studying cranial endocasts. This tool provides new insights into visualising inter‐individual sulcal imprint variation on extant human endocasts. This study will contribute immensely to solving key questions in paleoneurology.
de Jager EJ +4 more
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, 2022 The order Carnivora is one of the most speciose mammalian groups with over 280 living species and well over 1000 known extinct species. Here we present an overview of the evolutionary history of the carnivoran brain drawn from 150 years of ...
Lyras, G.A. +2 more
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Annual Review of Anthropology, 1987 Hominin paleoneurology is the subfield of paleoanthropology that investigates brain evolution in human ancestors. For over a century, paleoneurologists have focused on analyses of cranial capacities (as surrogates for brain size) and endocranial casts (endocasts), which are prepared from the interiors of fossilized braincases and reproduce details of ...
Dean Falk
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The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology
Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 In 1987, Phillip Tobias published a comprehensive anatomical analysis of the endocasts attributed to Homo habilis, discussing issues dealing with brain size, sulcal patterns, and vascular traces. He suggested that the neuroanatomy of this species evidenced a clear change toward many cerebral traits associated with our genus, mostly when concerning the ...
Bruner, Emiliano, Beaudet, Amélie
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Journal of Morphology, Volume 285, Issue 6, June 2024.We describe the nearly complete digital endocasts of the brain and bony labyrinth of the neotype specimen of Lithornis vulturinus, a palaeognathous bird from the early Eocene of Europe. Lithornis may provide the clearest insights to date into the neuroanatomy of the ancestral crown bird, combining an ancestrally unflexed brain with a caudally oriented ...
Klara E. Widrig +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Paleoneurology examines brain evolution through fossil endocasts, offering direct evidence of brain size, shape, and surface organization in extinct species. Digital approaches based on computed tomographic scans now enable detailed, non-invasive analyses, improving sulcal pattern detection and comparative studies with extant primates. Fossil endocasts
Gunz, P. ; https://orcid.org/
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, 2014 The discipline of Paleoneurology goes beyond the determination of biological characteristics and morphologies; it can also be used to infer behaviour in extinct species. In Paleocognition, the cognitive capacities of extinct humans can be examined through their fossil remains and the tools they left behind.
Natalie T. Uomini
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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.
Gunz, P. ; https://orcid.org/ +1 more
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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.
Emily B. Giffin
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