Sex differences in brain/body relationships of rhesus monkeys and humans

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 233-238

  Falk, Dean ^a   Froese, Nicholee ^a   Sade, Donald Stone ^b   Dudek, Bruce C ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b The North Country Institute for Natural Philosophy Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0033071128     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1998.0273     Document Type: Article

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