Quotes and Misquotes of J.H. Jerison

Quotes and Misquotes from:
• Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence
  • Quoted: Sat Mar 13 1993 19:45:18 By: Barbara Brasfield

    "...these animals had brains of typical lower vertebrate size...since their endocasts were all very near the volume of these expected brain sizes and since the endocasts present maximum limits on their brain sizes, the mammal-like reptiles, in short, were reptilian and not mammalian with repect to the evolution of their brains...There are few suggestions of mammalian features in the brains of the mammal-like reptiles...The forebrain, to the extent that its position is identifiable, was of reptilian size and shape. This was not the case the the earliest known fossil mammal...The earliest mammal for which there is reasonable evidence, Triconodon of the Upper Jurassic period, was apparently already at or near the level of living 'primitive' mammals such as the insectivores of the Virginia opposum. It was certainly lager brained than its reptilian ancestors of comparable size." (Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence)