Human and NonHuman primate brains: Are they allometrically scaled versions of the same design?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-77

  Rilling, James K ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain evolution; Cerebellum; Cerebral cortex; Comparative neuroanatomy; MRI; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

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EID: 33646679655     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20095     Document Type: Article

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