A never-ending search for the evolutionary origin of the neocortex: Rethinking the homology concept

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 150-153

  Medina, Loreta ^a   Abellán, Antonio ^a   Desfilis, Ester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX;

EID: 84879422571     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000348282     Document Type: Article

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