The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2012-06-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1201895109PMID 22723358PMCID PMC3386878
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