Assessing sources of error in comparative analyses of primate behavior: Intraspecific variation in group size and the social brain hypothesis

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 126-133

  Sandel, Aaron A ^a   Miller, Jordan A ^b   Mitani, John C ^a   Nunn, Charles L ^c   Patterson, Samantha K ^d   Garamszegi, László Zsolt ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Measurement error; Neocortex; Phylogenetic regression; Sociality

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUP SIZE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE;

PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HAPLORHINI; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84964507814     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.03.007     Document Type: Article

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