The road to a larger brain
- 1 April 2022
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 376 (6588) , 27-28
Abstract
Ecological opportunities in the early Cenozoic favored larger, not smarter, mammalsKeywords
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