Sentences with phrase «fossil braincases»
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.
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«Also, the fact that the bones of the braincase aren't fully fused means that this particular fossil is that of an individual that is not fully grown yet.
Until recently, if a team of researchers found an intact braincase, they were limited in what they could learn unless they cut the fossil open.
When paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unearthed a fossil near Johannesburg, South Africa, it seemed to be a jumble of parts: a braincase similar in size to that of an Australopithecus africanus, a Homo erectus pelvis, and the arms of a Miocene ape.
Maéva Orliac of Montpellier University, France, and colleagues say that a new fossil cast of its braincase shows Hyopsodus had a large inferior colliculus, a brain region enlarged in echolocating animals (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0030000).
From the Middle Pleistocene eastern Eurasians, the fossils had a low, broad braincase rounding onto the inferior skull, while there were two features from western Eurasian Neanderthals: a detailed rear arrangement and semicircular canal configuration.