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Allometric departures for the human brain provide insights into hominid brain evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

James K. Rilling
James K. Rilling
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 jrillin@emory.edu
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Abstract

Researchers studying primate brain allometry often focus on departures from allometry more than the allometric relationships themselves because only the former reveal what brain regions and behavioral-cognitive abilities were the focus of selection. Allometric departures for the human brain provide insights into hominid brain evolution and cast doubt on the suggestion that the large human cerebral cortex is a “spandrel.”

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 292 - 293
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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