Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

Enough species have now been subject to systematic quantitative analysis of the relationship between the morphology and cellular composition of their brain that patterns begin to emerge and shed light on the evolutionary path that led to mammalian brain diversity. Based on an analysis of the shared...

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Main Authors: Suzana eHerculano-Houzel, Paul eManger, Jon H Kaas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnana.2014.00077/full