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The effect of brain size evolution on feeding propensity, digestive efficiency, and juvenile growth

One key hypothesis in the study of brain size evolution is the expensive tissue hypothesis; the idea that increased investment into the brain should be compensated by decreased investment into other costly organs, for instance the gut. Although the hypothesis is supported by both comparative and exp...

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Autores principales: Kotrschal, Alexander, Corral‐Lopez, Alberto, Szidat, Sönke, Kolm, Niclas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5057322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26420573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12784