Why do we yawn? Primitive versus derived features

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 765-769

  Gallup, Andrew C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Communication; Contagious yawning; Excessive yawning; Thermoregulation; Yawning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE; YAWNING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YAWNING;

EID: 78649904152     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.009     Document Type: Review

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