Scientists have identified two genetic risk factors for the most common form of non-syndromic craniosynostosis, a birth defect in which the bony plates of an infant's skull prematurely fuse.

The skull of a male gorilla. The crest can be seen at the top of the skull. Katherine Balolia. He said if the sagittal crest relates to sexual selection in hominins too, then you may well see a ...

"And if sagittal crest size and social behaviour are linked in this way, then we could potentially establish that some of our extinct human relatives had a gorilla-like social system," she said.

image: This is the sagittal crest of a male gorilla skull. view more Credit: ANU. A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) of the bony head-crests of male gorillas could provide ...

Oliver Cattermole, from Upnor, Rochester underwent a complicated six-hour operation in July which saw doctors remove part of his skull after he was diagnosed with sagittal craniosynostosis.

The sagittal or lateral plane dives the body into left and right halves and is an x-z plane. Technically, the sagittal or median plane goes right through the middle between the body’s left and ...