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Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain
The large variation in brain size that exists in the animal kingdom has been suggested to have evolved through the balance between selective advantages of greater cognitive ability and the prohibitively high energy demands of a larger brain (the “expensive-tissue hypothesis” [1]). Despite over a cen...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cell Press
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23290552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.058 |