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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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BioMed Central
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-9 |