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Palaeoneurology of language: Grounds for scepticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Elizabeth Whitcombe
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, England

Abstract

Wilkins & Wakefield's identification of anatomical features in the Koobi Fora endocast, which may be thought to carry some functional significance in relation to organization for language, raises fundamental problems of method: attention is drawn to some limitations of the evidence, of endocasts and of the neuroanatomical map used to interpret them.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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