But Dean Falk from the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, an expert on fossil endocasts, adds the caution that Broca's area is defined by specific creases in the brain, and "it would be ...

Researchers at ELTE Eötvös Loránd and Kaposvár University in Hungary reconstructed the surface morphology of 28 canine brains, including various dog breeds, wolves, coyotes, and jackals.

To do so, Balanoff used a digitized database of endocasts, or molds of the internal space of dinosaur skulls, which when filled, resemble the brain. She identified and traced a sizable increase in ...

Paleontologists and biologists typically study mineral infillings or endocasts as well as the shape of their cavities to then hypothesize how they behave and function. They found these methods flawed.

and theories of brain evolution have been enriched by historical data on brain sizes and shapes from the endocasts of skulls in an accumulating fossil record. Many of the structural and functional ...