Behavioral flexibility is an important adaptive response to changing environments for many
animal species. Such plasticity may also promote the invasion of novel habitats by …

Why have some animals evolved large brains despite substantial energetic and
developmental costs? A classic answer is that a large brain facilitates the construction of …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Relative brain sizes in birds can rival those of primates, but large-scale patterns and drivers
of avian brain evolution remain elusive. Here, we explore the evolution of the fundamental …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Large brains and behavioural innovation are positively correlated, species-specific traits,
associated with the behavioural flexibility animals need for adapting to seasonal and …

The hypothesis that large brains allow animals to produce novel behaviour patterns is
supported by the correlation between brain size, corrected for body size, and the frequency …

Environmental variability has long been postulated as a major selective force in the
evolution of large brains. However, assembling evidence for this hypothesis has proved …

This paper aimed to explore and clarify the concept of behavioral flexibility. A selective
literature review explored how the concept of behavioral flexibility has been used in ways …

To what extent do individuals assess the cognitive abilities of the opposite sex when
choosing a mate? With the exception of song learning in birds, the hypothesis that cognitive …