Scientists at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and
Evolutionary Biology of the University of Valencia have been studying the
anatomy of the human head in a unique way, revealing the modularity of the
musculoskeletal system and its evolutionary origins.
The quantitative technique is called anatomical network
analysis (AnNA). It uses a computer it maps all sorts of meeting points and
interactions between different anatomical components of the head.
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The research team discovered that the head is broken down into ten different modules, each of which seems to have evolved mostly independently of the other ones.
"Each skull generated a network model in which each bone was
represented as the network node and each physical articulation, as a
connection. Thus, each skull was modelled as a 0-1 matrix with each connection
being a 1. This matrix served to analyse the network attributes, which could in
turn be compared to other generic network properties," explained lead
researcher Diego Rasskin Gutman.
Source: Medindia
Source: Medindia
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