Evolution of the base of the brain in highly encephalized human species

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bastir, Markus ^a   Rosas, Antonio ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^b   Peña Melian, Angel ^c   Manzi, Giorgio ^d   Harvati, Katerina ^e   Kruszynski, Robert ^f   Stringer, Chris ^f   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL LOBE; LEARNING; MORPHOMETRICS; OLFACTORY BULB; ORBITAL CORTEX; SMELLING; SOCIALIZATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; ANIMAL; CEPHALOMETRY; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; FOSSILS; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; SKULL;

EID: 84455174802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1593     Document Type: Article

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