Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates and fossil hominins

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bird; Brain; Cultural transmission; Hominin; Innovation; Non human primate; Tool

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL HOMININ; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LIFESTYLE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESOPALLIUM; NEOCORTEX; NIDOPALLIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84933678685     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00245     Document Type: Article

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