Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology — Arkhat Abzhanov / Serious Science

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull modularity can help to treat craniofacial abnormalities in humans.

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'This questions are also important for human health. There are quite a few biomedical conditions where some of the skull bones are fused prematurely or they don't fuse where they should be, and this causes a number of different what we call craniofacial abnormalities which are essentially problems with integration of the different parts of the cranium.'

Arkhat Abzhanov, Associate Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Principal Investigator, Abzhanov Lab, Harvard University

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