Survival of the fattest: The key to human brain evolution

Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-344

  Cunnane, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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