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Nature 399, 418-419 (3 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/20821

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Evolutionary neurobiology:  The neocortex comes together

Jon H. Kaas1 & Anton Reiner2

A recent meeting*on the evolutionary developmental biology of the cerebral cortex brought together evolutionary biologists and comparative and developmental neuroscientists to discuss how the mammalian neocortex evolved. The neocortex is a thick, laminated sheet of neurons, which varies in size and regional differentiation between different mammals, and is especially impressive in humans.

  1. Jon H. Kaas is in the Department of Psychology, 301 Wilson Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA.
    e-mail: Email: Jon.H.Kaas@vanderbilt.edu
  2. Anton Reiner is in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 855 Monroe Avenue, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA.
    e-mail: Email: areiner@utmem.edu