Dietary quality and encephalization in platyrrhine primates

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1729, 2012, Pages 715-721

  Allen, Kari L ^a   Kay, Richard F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expensive tissue; Human brain size evolution; New World monkeys; Phylogenetic comparative methods

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; ENCEPHALITIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; VOLUME;

ANIMALIA; BRACHYTELES; HOMINOIDEA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 84855645599     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1311     Document Type: Article

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