Brain Architecture and Social Complexity in Modern and Ancient Birds

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 107-124

  Burish, Mark J ^a   Kueh, Hao Yuan ^a   Wang, Samuel S H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeopteryx; Birds; Brain architecture; Cognitive; Machiavellian intelligence; Multivariate; Social

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CHICKEN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DINOSAUR; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHICKENS; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; STRIGIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0842320921     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075674     Document Type: Article

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