How Can Development and Plasticity Contribute to Understanding Evolution of the Human Brain?
Humans usually attribute themselves the prerogative of being the pinnacle of evolution. They have large brains with many billion neurons and glial cells, trillions of synapses and besides all, a plastic hardware that may change either subtly or strongly in response to the external environment and in...
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Main Author: | Fernanda Tovar-Moll (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Roberto Lent (auth) |
Format: | Book Chapter |
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Frontiers Media SA
2016
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