Brain Size in Carnivoran Mammals that Forage at the Land-Water Ecotone, with Implications for Robust Australopithecine Paleobiology

Human Brain Evolution: The Influence of Freshwater and Marine Food Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 173-187

  Shabel, Alan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain size in carnivoran mammals foraging land water ecotone implications for robust australopithecine paleobiology; Measurement of brain volume (BV) making cast of endocranium of intact skull; Methods neurocranial length (NCL), neurocranial width (NCW), and neurocranial height (NCH), measuring with digital calipers on specimens

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EID: 84885562255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470609880.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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