Brain Evolution: When Is a Group Not a Group?

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Byrne, Richard W ^a   Bates, Lucy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; MAMMALS; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35348850822     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.018     Document Type: Short Survey

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