Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and <it>Homo floresiensis</it>
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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 questio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/9 |