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THIS massive and expensive treatise—it weighs 11 pounds 9 ounces and its price is 5 guineas—consists mainly of descriptions of the (macroscopic) form and proportions of the grey matter in the brain stems of a series of Primates. The purpose of this immense labour is not altogether apparent: for the descriptions are vague and often meaningless. The photographs that are reproduced as half-tones are for the most part blurred and indistinct; and the line drawings that are intended to interpret these indistinct photographs exaggerate their defects and in some cases introduce errors not in the photographs.
The Brain from Ape to Man: a Contribution to the Study of the Evolution and Development of the Human Brain.
By Prof. Frederick Tilney. With Chapters on the Reconstruction of the Gray Matter in the Primate Brain Stem, by Prof. Henry Alsop Riley. In 2 volumes. Vol. 1. Pp. xxvii + 473. Vol. 2. Pp. xv + 475-1120. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 105s. net.
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SMITH, G. Brains of Apes and Men. Nature 122, 528 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122528a0
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