These researchers had already found that nearly 70% of newborn baboons, like human babies, had early asymmetry in the planum temporale(PT)area of the brain. The PT, which is also a key area for ...

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IN this work Prof. Wood Jones has made a notable contribution not only to the literature of human anatomy, but also to that of philosophical biology. The book is the result of an intensive study of a ...

The planum temporale area in the left hemisphere (shown in red), an area essential for language in humans, is larger than that in the right hemisphere (shown in green) in the majority of baboons. Only ...