Diversity matters: The importance of comparative studies and the potential for synergy between neuroscience and evolutionary biology

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 987-993

  Carlson, Bruce A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THEORY VALIDATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 84865632793     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2012.77     Document Type: Review

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