Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) challenges “Island Syndrome” and suggests little evidence of domestication (IMAGE)

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Increased brain size of the dwarf Channel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis) challenges “Island Syndrome” and suggests little evidence of domestication

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Schoenberger shows the size difference between a Channel Island fox skull (on left in photo) and a mainland gray fox skull (on right in photo).

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Nick Neumann/USC Wrigley Institute, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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