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One of the major themes of this volume is to underscore current efforts to synthesize the fields of comparative neurology and paleoneurology. In recent years, primate paleoneurologists have used cortical maps determined by neurophysiologists to interpret fossil endocasts (Falk, 1981; Gurche, this volume; Radinsky, 1972, 1975, 1979). As Galaburda and Pandya (this volume) point out, new information on architectonics and connections derived from comparative neurology should be incorporated into functional interpretations of fossil endocasts. The purpose of this paper is to review and, where necessary reinterpret, sulcal patterns of fossil primate endocasts in light of neurophysiological (Welker, 1976) and architectonic (Galaburda and Pandya, this volume) data.
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Falk, D. (1982). Mapping Fossil Endocasts. In: Armstrong, E., Falk, D. (eds) Primate Brain Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4148-2_14
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