An adaptive threshold in mammalian neocortical evolution.
Expansion of the neocortex is a hallmark of human evolution. However, determining which adaptive mechanisms facilitated its expansion remains an open question. Here we show, using the gyrencephaly index (GI) and other physiological and life-history data for 102 mammalian species, that gyrencephaly i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-11-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002000 |