"Miles within millimeters" and other awe-inspiring facts about our "mortarboard" human cortex

Zygon

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-278

  Glassman, Robert B ^a  

^a LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebrum; Comparative neuroanatomy; Connectedness; Evolution; Neuroscience; Ralph Wendell Burhoe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242580556     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00427     Document Type: Article

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