Evolutionary ecology of intraspecific brain size variation: A review

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2751-2764

  Gonda, Abigé ^a   Herczeg, Gábor ^a,b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Brain size; Evolution; Natural selection; Neural architecture; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887860013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.627     Document Type: Article

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