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Evolutionary convergence and shared computational principles in the auditory system

C E Carr1, D Soares

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA. cc117@umail.umd.edu

Brain, Behavior and Evolution
|September 11, 2002
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