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Insular dwarfism in hippos and a model for brain size reduction in Homo floresiensis
Body size reduction in mammals is usually associated with only moderate brain size reduction as the brain and sensory organs complete their growth before the rest of the body during ontogeny1,2. On this basis “phyletic dwarfs” are predicted to have a higher relative brain size than “phyletic giants”...
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2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19424156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07922 |