10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CEPHALISATION»
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cephalisation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cephalisation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Machine Learning Methods for Ecological Applications
The ratio of the brain to body weight is the cephalisation index, K. An exponent of
0.667 was used by Jerison to capture the belief that body area, as opposed to
mass, is the main determinant of brain required for somatic processes. The larger
...
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Eugène Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java: The History of the ...
He argued that the level of cephalisation among many groups of animals did not
fit exactly into the series 1 - 1/4 - 1/8 - V16--- but worked out at figures that were
slightly higher or lower. He did not regard these deviations as significant; they ...
Secondly, planaria show cephalisation. Cephalisation is the tendency for the
nervous coordination centre (brain) and special sense organs (eyes,
chemoreceptors) to be located at the anterior end of the animal (cephal-, head).
The eyes are ...
1.4.4.5. –. Cephalisation. From the emergence of the first multicellular organisms
around 600 million years ago to the evolution of Homo sapiens around 200,000
years ago, human evolution has been marked by increased brain development, ...
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Archives Néerlandaises de Zoologie
0.6, whereas that of the Anthropomorphae is upwards of 0.7 (Dubois, 1938, p. 39)
. In another publication Dubois (1924 a, p. 324; 1924 b, p. 435) says, that the
coefficient of cephalisation in the Anthropomorphae is i\ times as great as in the ...
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Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction
One of these makes the assumption that intelligence is related to brain size or,
more precisely, to a cephalisation index (K), which is based on a ratio of the
weight of the brain to that of the body. The other, which has been referred to as
the Null ...
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Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Zoology
the same index of cephalisation, the difference being indeed less than 1 / 1000. It
thus appears that English and German men of the classes in question occupy an
equal degree of cephalisation. But comparing the average weight of body of 40 ...
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Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Zoology, ...
the same index of cephalisation, the difference being indeed less than I / 1000. It
thus appears that English and German men of the classes in question occupy an
equal degree of cephalisation. But comparing the average weight of body of 40 ...
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Proceedings: Edited by Adam Sedgwick
the same index of cephalisation, the difference being indeed less than I/I000. It
thus appears that English and German men of the classes in question occupy an
equal degree of cephalisation. But comparing the average weight of body of 40 ...
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Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and ...
Fischer, Stuttgart Hemmer H (1971) Beitrag zur Erfassung der progressiven
Cephalisation bei Primaten. Proceedings 3rd international congress pri-
matology, Zu ̈rich 1970, vol 1. Karger, Basel, pp 99–107 Hemmer H (1974)
Progressive ...
Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall, Thorolf Hardt,
2007
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CEPHALISATION»
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cephalisation is used in the context of the following news items.
Birds' Skulls correspond to the Skulls of Young Dinosaurs
In addition to this drastic diminution in body size, this stage gives rise to birds' most distinctive features: beaks, cephalisation and increase in ... «El País.com, Jun 12»
It is important to get a head
For the first time her team has looked at "cephalisation" and all it entails in fossils rather than extant species. The whole of adaptive radiation ... «The Earth Times, Dec 11»