Geoffrey O'Shea a1 a1 Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
goshea@lamar.colostate.edu
Abstract
Our understanding of paleoneurology can benefit through considerations of how ontogenetic patterns of skull suture ossification can limit the phylogenetic expansion of underlying brain tissue to specific regions. Additionally, the influence of biochemical, rather than biomechanical, mechanisms on skull suture morphogenesis enable a reconceptualization of the skull as an independent evolutionary system from the brain.
