Big brains do matter in new environments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5306-5307

  Marino, Lori ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; CARNIVORE; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HOMINID; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; NOTE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURVIVAL RATE;

AVES; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 17244364582     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0501695102     Document Type: Note

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