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The fossil record of brain evolution is poorly represented for monkeys. There is only one known fossil ceboid endocast and the described endocasts of fossil cercopithecoid monkeys can be counted on one hand (Radinsky, 1974). Thus, any effort to assess the evolutionary histories of Old and New World monkeys, based on neurological data, must rely heavily on comparisons of brains or endocasts from extant species.
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Falk, D. (1980). Comparative Study of the Endocranial Casts of New and Old World Monkeys. In: Ciochon, R.L., Chiarelli, A.B. (eds) Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3764-5_13
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