Energetics and the evolution of human brain size

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2011-11-09

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/nature10629PMID 22080949
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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