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IN a short article on the ancestors of the Eutheria, published in NATURE of September 16, p. 523, Dr. Abbie lays considerable stress on a novel interpretation of the phylogenetic history of the corpus callosum of the brain. Dismissing the generally accepted interpretation, based on the classical studies of the late Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, he states “it has been shown that in reality the corpus callosum has appeared in quite a different manner”. For his evidence Dr. Abbie relies on certain topographical observations which he has published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology (70, 9; 1939). Whether Dr. Abbie's interpretation is correct or not, it should be pointed out that his evidence appears inconclusive to several other comparative neurologists. Indeed, in a forthcoming paper by Prof. F. Goldby, to be published in the Journal of Anatomy, Dr. Abbie's views on the evolution of the corpus callosum are subjected to serious criticism.
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CLARK, W. The Ancestors of the Eutheria. Nature 144, 600 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144600a0
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