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The Casts of Fossil Hominid Brains

The skulls of man and his precursors can be used as molds to make replicas of the brain. These casts indicate that man's brain began to differ from that of other primates some three million years ago

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 231 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Casts of Fossil Hominid Brains” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 231 No. 1 (), p. 106
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0774-106