An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution
Eric Lewitus, Iva Kelava, Alex T Kalinka, Pavel Tomancak, Wieland B Huttner
The paper identifies a neuronal threshold of ~109 neurons required for highly folded neocortex evolution, showing bimodal trait distributions and a genomic correlate in non-coding RNA conservation.
bioRxiv · Dec 16, 2013Evolutionary Biology