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Precocial skills for the precocial hemisphere? Several untested hypotheses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Fernando Nottebohm
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. 10021

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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