Gorilla and Orangutan Brains Conform to the Primate Cellular Scaling Rules: Implications for Human Evolution

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Brain, Behavior and Evolution

• Publication date

  2011-01-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1159/000322729PMID 21228547PMCID PMC3064932
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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