Sniff Sniff -- Smelling Leads to Smarter Mammals (3 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Sniff Sniff -- Smelling Leads to Smarter Mammals (3 of 8)

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This is a screen capture from the Amira 5.2.2 (2009, Visage Imaging Inc.) illustrating how a digital cranial endocast was extracted from the CT images of Hadrocodium wui. This image relates to an article that appeared in the May 20, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Timothy Rowe at University of Texas in Austin, and colleagues, was titled, "Fossil Evidence on Origin of the Mammalian Brain."

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