The posting about the girl and her thalamic damage and related
microcephaly reminded me of a question I have always had. In a chicken and
egg type of question, I always wanted to know whether the skull determines
the size of the brain, or does the brain determines the size of the skull?
In other words, if you have a small head, is it because you have a
small brain; or is it that if you have a small brain, you skull will be
small. I would assume that the space between the brain surface and the
skull is a constant.
Didier
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