Morphometric analysis of lungfish endocasts elucidates early dipnoan palaeoneurological evolution
The lobe-finned fish, lungfish (Dipnoi, Sarcoptergii), have persisted for ~400 million years from the Devonian Period to present day. The evolution of their dermal skull and dentition is relatively well understood, but this is not the case for the central nervous system. While the brain has poor pre...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2022-07-01
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/73461 |