Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T23:40:30.200Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Constraint and adaptation in primate brain evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Dietrich Stout
Dietrich Stout
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47402 distout@indiana.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Constraint has played a major role in brain evolution, but cannot tell the whole story. In primates, adaptive specialization is suggested by the existence of a covarying visual system, and may explain some residual variation in the constraint model. Adaptation may also appear at the microstructural level and in the globally integrated system of brain, body, life history and behavior.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 295 - 296
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)