A history of ideas in evolutionary neuroscience

Evolution of Nervous Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-15

  Striedter, G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bauplan; Brain size; Complexity; Constraint; Convergence; Evolutionary laws; Natural selection; Neurobiotaxis; Parcellation; Phylogenetic scale; Phylotypic stage

Indexed keywords

EID: 63449132716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-370878-8/00096-3     Document Type: Chapter

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