Developmental structure in brain evolution

@article{Finlay2001DevelopmentalSI,
 title={Developmental structure in brain evolution},
 author={Barbara L. Finlay and Richard B. Darlington and Nicholas Nicastro},
 journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
 year={2001},
 volume={24},
 pages={263 - 278},
 url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20978251}
}
Comparison of multiple regressions on allometric data for 131 mammalian species, however, suggests that for 9 of 11 brain structures taxonomic and body size factors are less important than covariance of these major structures with each other.

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