What can monotremes tell us about brain evolution?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1372, 1998, Pages 1127-1146

  Krubitzer, Leah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Evolution; Neural networks; Somatosensory cortex; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578204     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0271     Document Type: Article

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