An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution

Expansion of the neocortex is a hallmark of human evolution. However, determining which adaptive mechanisms facilitated its expansion remains an open question. Here we show, using the gyrencephaly index (GI) and other physiological and life-history data for 102 mammalian species, that gyrencephaly i...

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Autores principales: Lewitus, Eric, Kelava, Iva, Kalinka, Alex T., Tomancak, Pavel, Huttner, Wieland B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25405475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002000

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25405475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002000

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