Prefrontal white matter volume is disproportionately larger in humans than in other primates.

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Published in Nat Neurosci on January 23, 2005

Authors

P Thomas Schoenemann1, Michael J Sheehan, L Daniel Glotzer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6398, USA. ptschoen@sas.upenn.edu

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