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...A. Kern; U. Siebert; B. Cozzi; P.R. Hof; H.H.A. Oelschläger We investigated the quantitative morphology of the neocortex (gray matter) in 2 toothed whale (odontocete) species (harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena ; bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus ) with stereological methods. The 4 primary...

... calculated and used to rank and compare 21 odontocete species and 60 anthropoid primate species. Comparisons were made both within and between the two groups. Results show that the encephalization level of Homo sapiens is still extraordinary relative to that of nonhuman species. Nevertheless, a subset...