Constraints on brain size: The radiator hypothesis

Evolution of Nervous Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 347-353

  Falk, D ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain size; Radiator hypothesis

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EID: 84882904300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-370878-8/00028-8     Document Type: Chapter

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