albertcardona, 17 days ago

@Thomas

"How smart was T. rex? Testing claims of exceptional cognition in dinosaurs and the application of neuron count estimates in palaeontological research", Caspar et al. 2024 https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25459

A critique of Herculano-Houzel's 2023 paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cne.25453 were she estimated the number of neurons from dinosaur cranial endocasts and found them comparable to that of macaques.

#dinosaurs #TRex #paleontology #neuroscience