Cerebral complexity preceded enlarged brain size and reduced olfactory bulbs in Old World monkeys

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gonzales, Lauren A ^a   Benefit, Brenda R ^b   McCrossin, Monte L ^b   Spoor, Fred ^c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BRAIN; OLFACTORY CUE; OLIGOCENE; PRIMATE;

APE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; SMELLING; VICTORIAPITHECUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; ORGAN SIZE; SKULL; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AEGYPTOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMO; LEMURIDAE; PROCONSUL; SIMIIFORMES; VICTORIAPITHECUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CEREBRUM; FOSSILS; FRONTAL LOBE; HOMINIDAE; OLFACTORY BULB; ORGAN SIZE; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84936775342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8580     Document Type: Article

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