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Backwardness of human neuroanatomy

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To interpret the activity of living human brains, their neuroanatomy must be known in detail. New techniques to do this are urgently needed, since most of the methods now used on monkeys cannot be used on humans.

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  2. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Uni-versity of California, Irvine, California, 92715, USA

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Crick, F., Jones, E. Backwardness of human neuroanatomy. Nature 361, 109–110 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/361109a0

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