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Small brains predisposed Late Quaternary mammals to extinction

The Late Quaternary witnessed a dramatic wave of large mammal extinctions, that are usually attributed to either human hunting or climatic change. We hypothesized that the large mammals that survived the extinctions might have been endowed with larger brain sizes than their relatives, which could ha...

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Autores principales: Dembitzer, Jacob, Castiglione, Silvia, Raia, Pasquale, Meiri, Shai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8971383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35361771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07327-9