Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: Implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Montgomery, Stephen H ^a   Capellini, Isabella ^b   Barton, Robert A ^b   Mundy, Nicholas I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMO FLORESIENSIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES;

EID: 77349104870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-9     Document Type: Article

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