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Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds

Environmental variability has long been postulated as a major selective force in the evolution of large brains. However, assembling evidence for this hypothesis has proved difficult. Here, by combining brain size information for over 1,200 bird species with remote-sensing analyses to estimate tempor...

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Autores principales: Sayol, Ferran, Maspons, Joan, Lapiedra, Oriol, Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Székely, Tamás, Sol, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28004733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13971

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