Neocortex size, social skills and mating success in primates

Behaviour

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 357-368

  Pawłowski, Bogusław ^a   Lowen, C B ^b   Dunbar, R I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0040710925     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853998793066285     Document Type: Article

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