Evolution of the human brain: Changing brain size and the fossil record

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 555-562

  Park, Min S ^a   Nguyen, Andrew D ^a   Aryan, Henry E ^a   U, Hoi Sang ^a   Levy, Michael L ^a,b   Semendeferi, Katerina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain; Encephalization quotients; Evolution; Hominids; Humans

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BABOON; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; DIET; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; FOSSIL HOMINOID; HISTORY; HOMINID; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 33847370268     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249284.54137.32     Document Type: Review

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