Evolution: Big brains explained

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7375, 2011, Pages 43-44

  Potts, Richard ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FAT; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; METABOLISM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COST; EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIPID STORAGE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 82555191282     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/480043a     Document Type: Article

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