Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis

BACKGROUND: Brain size is a key adaptive trait. It is often assumed that increasing brain size was a general evolutionary trend in primates, yet recent fossil discoveries have documented brain size decreases in some lineages, raising the question of how general a trend there was for brains to increa...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Montgomery, Stephen H, Capellini, Isabella, Barton, Robert A, Mundy, Nicholas I
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: BioMed Central 2010
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825212/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105283
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-9
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