SINEO, Luca

TARTARELLI, G

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The reconstructed brain of Homo cepranensis: a reasoned description  Giandonato Tartarelli* and Luca Sìneo°  *Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa°  LabHomo - Laboratorio di Antropologia –  Dipartimento di Biologia ambientale e Buiodiversità Università di Palermo  Comparative approaches of the brain anatomy and physiology in living primates and in fossils, have long intrigued and discouraged generations of scholars. Main problems in these studies are related to the difficulty in the interpretation  of the significance of differences in brain size and macro organization in lobs or in the understanding of the relationship between differential expansions and the increase of specific functions. Brain do not fossilize but modern approaches that use brain reconstructions and models of interpretation can be useful in efficacious discussions. Here we propose a reconstruction and a discussion on the gross anatomy of the brain of Homo cepranensis a very interesting and debated human fossil attributed to Early-Middle Pleistocenic orisons.   

The reconstructed brain of Homo cepranensis: a reasoned description

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The reconstructed brain of Homo cepranensis: a reasoned description

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