Male and female brain evolution is subject to contrasting selection pressures in primates

BMC Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dunbar, Robin I M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; HYPOTHESIS; INTEGRATION; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIMATE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34249797889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-21     Document Type: Note

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