Macroevolutionary Patterns, Exaptation, and Emergence in the Evolution of the Human Brain and Cognition

Human Brain Evolution: The Influence of Freshwater and Marine Food Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-11

  Tattersall, Ian ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exaptation and emergence selection working with what is already there; Macroevolutionary patterns, exaptation and emergence evolution of the human brain and cognition; Natural selection inevitable consequence of production of more offspring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866440211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470609880.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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