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Cranial endocast of a stem platyrrhine primate and ancestral brain conditions in anthropoids

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: and other basal anthropoids indicate that the major brain subdivisions of these early anthropoids exhibit no consistent scaling pattern relative to the overall brain size. Many gross cerebral features appear to have transformed in a mosaic fashion and probably have originated in platyrrhine and catarrhine anthropoids independently, involving multiple, independent instances of size increase, as well as some secondary decreases.

Source: Science Advances

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav7913

Authors: Xijun Ni, John J. Flynn, André R. Wyss, Chi Zhang

Institutions: American Museum of Natural History, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

Language: English

Topic: Primate Behavior and Ecology

Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $4,500