Evidence for coevolution of sociality and relative brain size in three orders of mammals.
As the brain is responsible for managing an individual's behavioral response to its environment, we should expect that large relative brain size is an evolutionary response to cognitively challenging behaviors. The "social brain hypothesis" argues that maintaining group cohesion is co...
Autores principales: | Pérez-Barbería, F, Shultz, S, Dunbar, R |
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Formato: | Journal article |
Lenguaje: | English |
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2007
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