Fiat or Bona Fide Boundary-A Matter of Granular Perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Vogt, Lars ^a   Grobe, Peter ^b   Quast, Björn ^a   Bartolomaeus, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMEDICINE; CONSANGUINITY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84871182524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048603     Document Type: Article

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