Maternal effects and the evolution of br
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L.Z. Garamszegi; C. Biard; M. Eens; A.P. Møller; N. Saino; P. Surai
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A central dogma for the evolution of brain size posits that the maintenance of large brains incurs developmental costs, because they need prolonged periods to grow during the early ontogeny. Such constraints are supported by the interspecific relationship between ontological differences and relative