Of the three organizers of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop on
"Neocortex: Onto geny and Phylogeny," one derived most of his
knowledge about neocortex from studies on birds, another had never
studied any animal but the cat and could probably recognize not
more than ten animal species, and the third had very limited
experience with mountaineering. They had in common the belief that
evolutionary thinking permeates what biologists do, but that
evolution of species and structures cannot be directly
experimentally addressed. Although the fossil record can provide
some major insights, the inroad to the evolution of the brain is
indirect, via comparative anatomy and developmental biology. By
identifying similarities and differences between brain structures
in the species at hand, comparative anatomy generates hypotheses of
evolutionary transformations. By understanding the rules of
morphological transformation, developmental biology can, in
principle, estimate the likelihood that a given transformation may
have actually occurred. The meeting was a way to check if this
notion is viable, by gathering together scientists from these two
fields. Standing, left to right: F. Ebner, V. Caviness, M.
Weisskopf, B. Fritszch, N. Swindale, J. Walter, H. Karten, J.
Pettigrew, E. Welker, M. Cynader, D. Frost, L. Lopez-Mascaraque, P.
Katz, H. Jerison, E. Soriano, Mayor of Alagna, Dr. G. Guglielmina,
and associate, H. Van der Loos, B. Finlay, H. Scheich, C. Ruela.
Seated: S. Pallas, T. Lohmann, J. De Carlos, F. Valverde, G.
Innocenti, M. Diamond v "Gathering" does not accurately describe
what really happened."
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