braincast

noun

braincast

noun

Etymology From brain + cast.

1

A cast fossil of the brain of an organism.

While the apparent presence of perisylvian speech-related areas in the natural braincasts of Homo habilis suggest that it could speak, we do not of course know whether the other necessary structures and functions, central and peripheral, were also in place.2014, John L. Bradshaw, Human Evolution:

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