Sentences with phrase «endocasts of»

The selected region of the bony labyrinth was subsequently outlined for each CT slice image in VGStudioMax and added together to produce segments representing endocasts of both bony labyrinths in each specimen.

STLs of the registered «mean'the San and MLDG 1704 endocasts were imported into Mimics and a cutting plane was generated and positioned as above, with the endocast of MLDG 1704 superimposed (Figure S4).

The Maludong endocast is broader and taller than the Chinese Pleistocene H. sapiens cranium from Liujiang (breadth 115 mm, height 95 mm), and much broader than the endocast of the late Upper Pleistocene Japanese Minatogawa I cranium (112 mm).

Its frontal lobe is, however, very distinct from the endocast of the H. rhodesiensis Kabwe cranium (breadth 108 mm, height 88 mm, chord 78 mm), broader and longer than NEAND endocasts (breadth 107 mm, chord 82 mm) and broader, longer and taller than ERECT (breadth: 99 ± 8 mm; z2.64, p0.01; height: 74 ± 11 mm; 2.18, p0.02; chord: 76 ± 6 mm; z1.60).

Not exact matches

Biofilms form endocasts and once dissolved out of the bone, mimic real blood vessels and osteocytes.

Still, researchers have spent decades debating the implications of partially preserved brain surface features on hominid endocasts.

Endocast researchers need to study the range of brain surface characteristics in a larger sample of living chimps and other apes to make more accurate comparisons, Falk says.

«I was really wrong about the handful of Australopithecus endocasts,» Falk says.

The study casts doubt on a 2014 paper by Falk that was based on casts of the inside of fossil braincases, called endocasts, which preserve impressions of these surface features.

Identification of in vivo sulci on the external surface of eight adult chimpanzee brains: implications for interpreting early hominin endocasts.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

Then they compared the two endocasts with those for seven fossils of early cynodonts — carnivorous reptiles that are close relatives of the first mammals — as well as with endocasts for 27 other primitive mammals that lived between 65 million and 190 million years ago and with the brains of 270 living mammals.

Two grooves identified on an endocast from a partial H. naledi skull frame the language - related section of Broca's area in humans today, Hurst said.

Biofilms form endocasts and once dissolved out of the bone, mimic real blood vessels and osteocytes.

Olduvai Gorge, Vol.4: The Skulls, Endocasts and Teeth of Homo habilis.

A 3D virtual endocast was rendered from CT - scans of MLDG 1704 (Figure 11A — D; Figures S1, S2, S3, S4).

The volume of this separated portion amounted to 39 % of the original total brain volume for the mean San endocast.

A resulting file of the reference planes and bony labyrinth endocasts for Petauroides volans is shown in Figure 1.

103 The Taung endocast showing the brain surface is a natural one, made by concretelike sediments collecting on the inside of the skull long after death and settling into whatever grooves the brain surface and blood vessels had imprinted on the inside of the skull.

Latex endocasts can also be made of skulls.

For a photo gallery of skulls and endocasts, see Dean Falk's collection at http://www.albany.edu/braindance/gallery.htm. A comparative collection of brains is at http://brainmuseum.org. The photograph of Tobias and Calvin is thanks to Dr. Qian Wang.