Absolute, not relative brain size correlates with sociality in ground squirrels

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-03-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2015.2725PMID 27009231PMCID PMC4822454
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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