The fore-brain of Macacus

‘Fore Brain: A Hint of the Ancestral Cortex

By combining gene expression profiling with image registration, Tomer et al. (2010) find that the mushroom body of the segmented worm Platynereis dumerilii shares many features with the mammalian cerebral cortex. The authors propose that the mushroom body and cortex evolved from the same structure in the common ancestor of vertebrates and invertebrates.

On the Plexus brachialis of Macacus cyclopsis.

First impressions of the Fore

On this day of celebration and historical memories I thought it would be interesting to reflect on what I had written in my field diary during the first few weeks of anthropological research, which Robert Glasse and I began in July 1961. What were our first impressions of the Fore, and what were the first interactions between the Fore and ourselves? After we stopped overnight at Okapa in the No...

Bringing nature to the fore.

This article has two aims: first, to give an historic overview of the nature-nurture debate in relation to how mothers learn to breastfeed. The overview will relate how the 'nurture' perspective came to dominate our understanding of the ontogeny of breastfeeding. The second aim is to propose professional breastfeeding competencies in an attempt to integrate the 'nature' perspective within early...

The arteries of the upper arm in Macacus cyclopsis.

Studies on the blood vesseles of the limbs of primates have been conducted from long ago. Although their works were not done on a large sample of the same species, comparatively detailed results have been published by Bayer (1933), Bluntschli (1906), Mailer (1905), Manners-Smith (1911), Lineback (1933), Gappert (1908) et al. Needless to say, in discussing the most common condition of any animal...