Morphology and Histology of Chimpanzee Primary Visual Striate Cortex Indicate that Brain Reorganization Predated Brain Expansion in Early Hominid Evolution

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 594-602

  Holloway, Ralph L ^a   Broadfield, Douglas C ^b,c   Yuan, Michael S ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Chimpanzee; Human evolution; Lunate sulcus; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0242475096     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10071     Document Type: Article

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