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Reshuffling or inventing prosomeres: Expensive radiation or expensive neural tissue?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Andrei C. Miu
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-NapocaCJ3400, Romania
Adrian I. Olteanu
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-NapocaCJ3400, Romania

Abstract:

The target article is an elegant synthesis of the developmental and functional data and views on the evolutionary origin of the mammalian isocortex, integrating results from cell and molecular biology, experimental neuroanatomy, and chemoarchitectonic studies. Complementarily, we give here an account of two modes of isocortical evolution (prosomere reshuffling and invention) in terms of costs of radiation and neural tissue.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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