Neonatal maturity as the key to understanding brain size evolution in homeothermic vertebrates

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 155-158

  Weisbecker, Vera ^a,b   Goswami, Anjali ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altricial; Brain size; Encephalisation; Maternal investment; Precocial

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DENSITY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLADISTICS; COGNITION; ENERGY RESOURCE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOWL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HATCHLING; HOMEOTHERMIC VERTEBRATE; HUMAN; LEMURIDAE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NEONATAL MATURITY HYPOTHESIS; NEWBORN MATURITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; STARVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; ORGAN SIZE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951518562     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000128     Document Type: Article

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