Abstract
THE calvarium of the mammalian skull is moulded over the brain which it contains. Hence a cast of the inside of the skull reproduces in a general way the form of tne brain itself. It is for this reason that the study of endocranial casts assumes some importance palæontology, and particularly in the palæontology of man and the other primates. But it has also been the subject of an intermittent controversy which bursts out afresh with every new discovery of fossil man or ape.
Anthropoid and Human Endocranial Casts
By Pierre Hirschler. Pp. ix + 150 + 11 plates. (Amsterdam: N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgeversmij., 1942.) n.p.
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LE GROS CLARK, W. Anthropoid and Human Endocranial Casts. Nature 158, 5 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158005a0
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