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Little brainiacs and big dummies: Are we selecting for stupid, stout, or small dogs?

BACKGROUND: Brain size has been associated with intelligence of various orders and families of animals, leading to the concept of encephalization. Brain size scales with body weight between species within mammals to approximately the 0.67 power. However, within species, this scaling exponent appears...

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Autores principales: Rishniw, Mark, Dewey, Curtis W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33898291
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ovj.v11i1.16