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SUMMARY:Integrative Neuroanatomy and The Origin of Birds - Amy Balanoff\, 
 John Hopkins University
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CONTACT:Dr Rachael Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:The evolution of flight is a rare event in vertebrate history\
 , and one that demands functional integration across multiple anatomical/p
 hysiological systems. The neuroanatomical basis for such integration and t
 he role that brain evolution assumes in behavioural transformations remain
 s poorly understood. Avian powered flight is especially conducive to study
  because it occurs in a group whose extant diversity is abundant\, easily 
 sampled\, and tied to a stem lineage rich in well-preserved fossils. This 
 combination permits experimental data to be integrated with broad-based\, 
 macroevolutionary patterns to better understand the demands that powered f
 lying makes on structural complexes that originated for terrestrial locomo
 tion. My research takes patterns derived from in-vivo analysis of the brai
 n of flying birds to make predictions about those structural neuroanatomic
 al changes that would be expected to occur and the phylogenetic position o
 f these transformations in the fossil record of non-avian dinosaurs.
LOCATION:Department of Earth Sciences\, Tilley Lecture Theatre
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