Organization of a miniature neocortex - What shrew brains suggest about mammalian evolution

Evolution of Nervous Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 137-141

  Catania, K C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestor; Brain; Cortex; Endocast; Fossil; Insectivore; Isocortex; Mammal; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882895226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-370878-8/00063-X     Document Type: Chapter

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