Primate Brains May Have Followed Varied and Complex Evolutionary Patterns (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Primate Brains May Have Followed Varied and Complex Evolutionary Patterns (2 of 4)

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A high-resolution computed tomography (CT) scan of the Chilecebus carrascoensis fossil skull. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 21st, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Ni at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Cranial endocast of a stem platyrrhine primate and the ancestral brain conditions in anthropoids."

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© Xijun Ni and AMNH

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