Is the pituitary fossa of LB 1 large?
The diagnosis of cretinism would be most strongly supported by the authors’ claim that LB 1 has a large pituitary fossa. If you haven’t learned this lesson yet, take note: If Ralph Holloway and Dean Falk agree on an anatomical observation, then it is correct. The two have been interviewed in a number of the press articles. My favorite comes from Kate Wong, where both Holloway and Falk give long statements. These are really too long for me to block quote, so go read them. But I’ll take one sentence from each: Falk: Now that we’ve reexamimined the CT images, we can tell you that there is absolutely no way that the length of the pituitary fossa could be 12.9 mm. Holloway: …the pituitary fossa on my endocast is, to my mind, tiny, and I don’t get much more than about 6 mm in dimensions, either [anterior-posteriorly] or in breadth, so I don’t understand where they have data to make such a claim. That’s the end of this story.
