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The allometry of brain size in mammals

The allometry of brain size in mammals

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The allometry of brain size in mammals

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The allometry of brain size in mammals

Publisher

American Society of Mammalogists

Journal title

Journal of mammalogy, 2019-04, Vol.100 (2), p.276-283

Language

English

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American Society of Mammalogists

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Contents

Why some animals have big brains and others do not has intrigued scholars for millennia. Yet, the taxonomic scope of brain size research is limited to a few mammal lineages. Here, we present a brain size dataset compiled from the literature for 1,552 species with representation from 28 extant taxonomic orders. The brain–body size allometry across a...

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The allometry of brain size in mammals

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TN_cdi_crossref_citationtrail_10_1093_jmammal_gyz043

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_citationtrail_10_1093_jmammal_gyz043

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ISSN

0022-2372

E-ISSN

1545-1542

DOI

10.1093/jmammal/gyz043

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