Comparative analysis of the role of olfaction and the neocortex in primate intrasexual competition

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1182-1189

  Alport, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Main olfactory bulb; Mate competition; Neocortex; Primate; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPETITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPULATION; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD RESOURCE; FRUGIVORY; HAPLORHINI; INTRASEXUAL COMPETITION; MALE; MATING; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SEXUALITY; SMELLING; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; NEOCORTEX; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PRIMATES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES;

EID: 7644231757     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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