Brains matter, bodies maybe not: The case for examining neuron numbers irrespective of body size

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 191-199

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b MCT   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body size; Brain size; Cognition; Encephalization; Evolution; Number of neurons

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955530141     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05976.x     Document Type: Article

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