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Alexandra R DeCasien

joined in Apr 9, 2017

PhD student at Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, USA.

DeCasien has 1 break published.

Food for thought: recipe for bigger brains

There are hundreds of species of primates spread all across the globe that vary greatly in both brain size and intelligence. At the extremes, the great apes (our closest living relatives) have brains that are slightly larger than those of newborn humans, while mouse lemurs... click to read more

Alexandra R DeCasien | PhD student at Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, USA

evolution

brain size

primates

brain evolution

Reading time 4 min

published on Sep 4, 2017

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