Globularization and Domestication

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Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 265-278

  Benítez Burraco, Antonio ^a   Theofanopoulou, Constantina ^b   Boeckx, Cedric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Domestication syndrome; Full fledged languages; Globularization; Language ready brain; Modern cognition; Neural crest cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043542628     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-016-9399-7     Document Type: Article

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