Decreasing sleep requirement with increasing numbers of neurons as a driver for bigger brains and bodies in mammalian evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1816, 2015, Pages

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Neurociência Translacional   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain size; Evolution; Metabolite clearance; Number of neurons; Sleep

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLITE; NEUROLOGY; RODENT; SLEEP; SURFACE AREA;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MAMMALS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; SLEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84942255239     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1853     Document Type: Article

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