Article
Heritability and association of cortical petalias in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
Brain, behavior and evolution - 1 Jan 1990
Cheverud J M, Falk D, Hildebolt C, Moore A J, Helmkamp R C, Vannier M
Abstract excerpt
Frontal and occipital petalias, the anterior or posterior protrusions of a cerebral lobe on one side or the other, are among the most striking anatomical asymmetries in human brains. Our previous studies of rhesus macaques revealed a relatively high frequency of right frontal petalias, whereas occipital petalias were seen less often and were equally common on right and left sides. In the present study, we test...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Dominance, Cerebral
- Frontal Lobe
- Macaca mulatta
- Occipital Lobe
- Phenotype