Abstract:An attempt is made to extend the undeniable influence of the growing brain upon the shape and size of its neurocrania! bony case (an effect called "macroneurotrophic") to the extracerebral nervous tissue, spinal and peripheral, and to the extracranial bony skeleton. The basic argument is that, in the same way as the shape and size of the neurocranium cannot be understood without taking into account the enclosed growing brain, gross morphology of the vertebral column (the protective bony envelope of its central… Show more
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