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Digitized endocasts and brains: a perspective on measurements and historical analyses of the evolution of 172 fossil and extant amniote specimens.

Harry J Jerison, Catherine M Early, Andrew A Farke, Ashley C Morhardt

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4 authors.

Harry J Jerison *Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
Catherine M EarlyBiology Department, Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States of America.
Andrew A FarkeRaymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont, CA, United States of America.
Ashley C Morhardt *Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States of America.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This perspective paper is intended to stimulate future research and discussion of brain evolution in amniotes by sharing 172 digitized endocasts of extinct and extant species spanning 60 million years. Using 3D digital surface scans of physical (

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Biological EvolutionBrainFossilsSkullAnimalsImaging, Three-DimensionalMammalsPrimatesReptilesAllometryBrainEncephalization QuotientEndocastEndocranialMammalian evolutionMorphoSourceNeocorticalizationPaleoneurology

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PMID40980061
PMCPMC12447954

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