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Todd C. Rae is a member of the Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group and a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK. He has investigated craniofacial morphology, paleoprimatology, and the theory and method of phylogenetic systematics
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Holes in the head: Evolutionary interpretations of the paranasal sinuses in catarrhines
Article first published online: 8 DEC 2004
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20036
Copyright © 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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How to Cite
Rae, T. C. and Koppe, T. (2004), Holes in the head: Evolutionary interpretations of the paranasal sinuses in catarrhines. Evol. Anthropol., 13: 211–223. doi: 10.1002/evan.20036
Publication History
- Issue published online: 8 DEC 2004
- Article first published online: 8 DEC 2004
Funded by
- Royal Society
- the Leakey Foundation
- Cooperative Research Program of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan
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Abstract
Everyone who has ever experienced a head cold is familiar with the paranasal sinuses, the bony hollows above and beside the nasal cavity that contribute, sometimes painfully, to upper respiratory tract disorders. These internal cranial structures have a wide distribution among eutherian mammals and archosaurs.1, 2 Sinuses have languished somewhat in the shadow of their better known and more accessible morphological cousins (dentition, postcrania), but new imaging techniques, growth studies, and explicit phylogenetic evaluation3 are beginning to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of the evolution of these enigmatic spaces in primates and promise to yield insights into the evolution of the facial skeleton.