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Winner of the 2018 Journal of Zoology "Paper of the Year" award

8 October 2019, by Website Team Biologie

The paper "Early environmental conditions affect the volume of higher-order brain centers in a jumping spider" by colleagues from Universität Hamburg and the University of Greifswald was awarded the title "paper of the year 2018" in the Journal of Zoology!

Watch the video summarizing our findings here.

Read more about it in this blogpost and download the paper here.

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