Wernicke's area homologue in chimpanzees IPan troglodytes and its relation to the appearance of modern human language

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2165-2174

  Spocter, Muhammad A ^a   Hopkins, William D ^b,c   Garrison, Amy R ^a   Bauernfeind, Amy L ^a   Stimpson, Cheryl D ^a   Hof, Patrick R ^d,e   Sherwood, Chet C ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Chimpanzee; Cytoarchitecture; Evolution; Wernicke's area

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ASYMMETRY; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMMON ANCESTRY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; NEUROLOGY; PRIMATE;

EID: 77955357758     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0011     Document Type: Article

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