Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1769, 2013, Pages

  Snell Rood, Emilie C ^a   Wick, Naomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cranial capacity; Fecundity; Rodents; Urban evolution

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CRANIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FECUNDITY; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CITY; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SKULL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CITIES; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; MINNESOTA; SEASONS; SKULL;

EID: 84897361799     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1384     Document Type: Article

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