Relative brain size and its relation with the associative pallium in birds

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 69-77

  Sayol, Ferran ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a,c   Sol, Daniel ^a,b  

^a CREAF   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain size; Cognition; Concerted evolution; Encephalization; Mosaic evolution; Pallium

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIRD; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BRAIN; ORGAN SIZE; PHYLOGENY; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 84964291038     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: 14219743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000444670     Document Type: Article

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