Gorilla and orangutan brains conform to the primate cellular scaling rules: Implications for human evolution

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-44

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain size; Evolution, human; Great apes; Human; Neurons, number

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GLIA; GORILLA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; ORANG UTAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; INDOLES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PONGO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COLOBINAE; EPICOCCUM; HOMINIDAE; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SIMIA;

EID: 79951853770     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322729     Document Type: Article

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