Developmental modes and developmental mechanisms can channel brain evolution

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Charvet, Christine J ^a   Striedter, Georg F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Development; Evolution; Mode; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN SIZE; DUCK; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARROT; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE EXPANSION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 80052984722     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2011.00004     Document Type: Article

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