Opinion piece. The relevance of brain evolution for the biomedical sciences

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 138-140

  Smulders, Tom V ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal models; Biomedical research; Brain evolution; Comparative neuroscience; Neurocladistics; Scala naturae

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; BRAIN; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EXTANT SPECIES; HUMAN; MEDICINE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; EPITONIUM; RATTUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63249112594     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0521     Document Type: Note

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