Brain reorganization, not relative brain size, primarily characterizes anthropoid brain evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1759, 2013, Pages

  Smaers, J B ^a   Soligo, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Cerebellum; Hippocampus; Prefrontal; Primates; Variable rates method

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANTHROPOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84878214431     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0269     Document Type: Article

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