Human Endocast (VIDEO)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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The movie demonstrates that an endocast is the cast of the internal bony brain case approximating brain size and shape and then oscillates between a symmetric and asymmetric shape to emphasize the asymmetry pattern that is shared in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. This pattern includes a more backwards projecting left hemisphere, a more forward projecting right hemisphere, differential projections of the cerebellar lobes and the temporal poles.

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Simon Neubauer, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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