Natural selection of mammalian brain components

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 471-473

  Brown, William M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; BAT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ECOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INSECT; INSECTIVORE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SHORT SURVEY;

INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0035452286     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02246-7     Document Type: Review

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