Cranial volume and palate length of cats, Felis spp., under domestication, hybridization and in wild populations

Reduced brain size, compared with wild individuals, is argued to be a key characteristic of domesticated mammal species, and often cited as a key component of a putative ‘domestication syndrome’. However, brain size comparisons are often based on old, inaccessible literature and in some cases drew c...

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Main Authors: Raffaela Lesch, Andrew C. Kitchener, Georg Hantke, Kurt Kotrschal, W. Tecumseh Fitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2022-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210477