The last common ancestor of aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, and elephants: what did its brain look like? In this freely available Editor’s Choice article, Benoit et al compared micro-CT scans of endocasts from many different afrotherian species to infer what the brain of their last common ancestor probably looked like: it likely was surprisingly complex, including a relatively large and folded neocortex. Here is the link: karger/Article/FullText/348481
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:39:37 +0000