Brains, innovations and evolution in birds and primates

L Lefebvre, SM Reader, D Sol - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2004‏ - karger.com
Several comparative research programs have focused on the cognitive, life history and
ecological traits that account for variation in brain size. We review one of these programs, a …

How to be a fig

DH Janzen - Annual review of ecology and systematics, 1979‏ - JSTOR
The 900-odd species of Ficus (20, 21) constitute the most distinctive of the widespread
genera of tropical plants. Figs have (a) a complex obligatory mutualism with their pollinating …

The evolution of mammalian brain size

JB Smaers, RS Rothman, DR Hudson, AM Balanoff… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Relative brain size has long been considered a reflection of cognitive capacities and has
played a fundamental role in develo** core theories in the life sciences. Yet, the notion …

Machiavellian intelligence

RW Byrne - … Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues …, 1996‏ - Wiley Online Library
The hypothesis that intelligence is an adaptation to deal with the complexity of living in semi‐
permanent groups of conspecifics, a situation that involves the potentially tricky balance of …

[کتاب][B] Primate cognition

M Tomasello, J Call - 1997‏ - books.google.com
Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

[PDF][PDF] The control of neuron number

RW Williams, K Herrup - Annual review of neuroscience, 1988‏ - researchgate.net
The Control of Neuron Number Page 1 Select Phenotype Database Site search Search
Publications Home Publications List of Contents Quantitative Neurogenetics & QTL Map** …

Primates, brains and ecology

TH Clutton‐Brock, PH Harvey - Journal of zoology, 1980‏ - Wiley Online Library
The paper examines systematic relationships among primates between brain size (relative
to body size) and differences in ecology and social system. Marked differences in relative …

Relative brain size and basal metabolic rate in terrestrial vertebrates

RD Martin - Nature, 1981‏ - nature.com
Studies of the relationship between brain size and body size in terrestrial verteberates have
a long history1–4. Demonstrations of regular relationships between brain and body size …

Modeling brain evolution from behavior: a permutational regression approach

P Legendre, FJ Lapointe, P Casgrain - Evolution, 1994‏ - academic.oup.com
This paper has two complementary purposes: first, to present a method to perform multiple
regression on distance matrices, with permutation testing appropriate for path‐length …

A critique of comparative studies of brain size

SD Healy, C Rowe - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2007‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In recent years, there have been over 50 comparative analyses carried out in which social or
ecological variables have been used to explain variation in whole brain size, or a part …