How humans stand out in frontal lobe scaling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 39, 2013, Pages

  Smaers, Jeroen B ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX I; HUMANS; MUTATION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84884636483     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308850110     Document Type: Letter

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