This essay attempts to address the perennial question 'Why Paranasal Sinuses?'. In doing so it highlights the flaws in many much-favoured but ill-founded theories concerning the role of these sinuses in humans. It is concluded that the question can only be fully answered through a greater understanding of differential growth changes within the craniofacial massif.
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Sean Blaney (1990) studied this question.
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