Abstract
IN "Man's Place in Nature", T. H. Huxley expressed some astonishment at the abrupt appearance of a corpus callosum in placentai mammals, suggesting that this phenomenon represents "the greatest leap anywhere made by Nature in her brainwork". Later on, between 1887 and 1895, this problem was studied by a number of anatomists, including Osborn, Zuckerkandl, Symington, Herrick and Elliot Smith, and several divergent opinions were expressed as to the phylogenetic origin of the commissure.
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Origin of the Corpus Callosum. Nature 145, 271–272 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145271a0
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