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The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main hypotheses, the assumptions they make and the evidence for and against them. Taking as our starting point the fact that every hypothesis has sound empirical evidence to support it, we argue that the hypotheses are best interpreted in terms of a framework of evolutionary causes (selection factors), consequences (evolution...
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- 10.1098/rstb.2016.0244
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- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 372
- Issue:
- 1727
- Pages:
- 20160244
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-02
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1471-2970
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0962-8436
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pubs:708823
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uri:08ecb921-be49-453f-a079-680ee9de3170
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uuid:08ecb921-be49-453f-a079-680ee9de3170
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- pubs:708823
- Copyright holder:
- Dunbar and Shultz
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?
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