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Evolutionary Biology and Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. U. M. Smith
C. U. M. Smith*
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Unit of Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Vision Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET
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“Every one of the twenty-eight bones of the human skull has been inherited in an unbroken succession from the air-breathing fishes of the pre-Devonian seas.” (Gregory, 1967)

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 2 , February 1993 , pp. 149 - 153
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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