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Inference of ecological and social drivers of human brain-size evolution.
Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 51 papers.
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51 citing papers in PubMed.
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Abstract
The human brain is unusually large. It has tripled in size from Australopithecines to modern humans
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