Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

The glia/neuron ratio: How it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution

(2014) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   GLIA

Greater addition of neurons to the olfactory bulb than to the cerebral cortex of eulipotyphlans but not rodents, afrotherians or primates

(2014) Pedro F. M. Ribeiro et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Comparative neuronal morphology of the cerebellar cortex in afrotherians, carnivores, cetartiodactyls, and primates

(2014) Bob Jacobs et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Pyramidal cells in V1 of African rodents are bigger, more branched and more spiny than those in primates

(2014) Guy N. Elston et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

(2014) Kleber Neves et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Three counting methods agree on cell and neuron number in chimpanzee primary visual cortex

(2014) Daniel J. Miller et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Systematic, Cross-Cortex Variation in Neuron Numbers in Rodents and Primates

(2013) C. J. Charvet et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

A Conserved Pattern of Differential Expansion of Cortical Areas in Simian Primates

(2013) T. A. Chaplin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Validation of the isotropic fractionator: Comparison with unbiased stereology and DNA extraction for quantification of glial cells

(2013) Jami Bahney et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Brain reorganization, not relative brain size, primarily characterizes anthropoid brain evolution

(2013) J. B. Smaers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Postnatal development of layer III pyramidal cells in the primary visual, inferior temporal, and prefrontal cortices of the marmoset

(2013) Tomofumi Oga et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Different scaling of white matter volume, cortical connectivity, and gyrification across rodent and primate brains

(2013) Lissa Ventura-Antunes et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Distribution of neurons in functional areas of the mouse cerebral cortex reveals quantitatively different cortical zones

(2013) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Elephants Have Relatively the Largest Cerebellum Size of Mammals

(2012) Busisiwe C. Maseko et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Faster scaling of visual neurons in cortical areas relative to subcortical structures in non-human primate brains

(2012) C. E. Collins et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Dendritic Morphology of Pyramidal Neurons in the Chimpanzee Neocortex: Regional Specializations and Comparison to Humans

(2012) S. Bianchi et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

(2012) K. Fonseca-Azevedo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How the Cortex Gets Its Folds: An Inside-Out, Connectivity-Driven Model for the Scaling of Mammalian Cortical Folding

(2012) Bruno Mota et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Not All Brains Are Made the Same: New Views on Brain Scaling in Evolution

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Updated Neuronal Scaling Rules for the Brains of Glires (Rodents/Lagomorphs)

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Development and Evolution of the Human Neocortex

(2011) Jan H. Lui et al.   CELL

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Fossil Evidence on Origin of the Mammalian Brain

(2011) T. B. Rowe et al.   SCIENCE

Cellular Scaling Rules for Primate Spinal Cords

(2010) Mark J. Burish et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of an Extended Number of Primate Species

(2010) Mariana Gabi et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate cerebral cortex

(2010) S. Herculano-Houzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coordinated scaling of cortical and cerebellar numbers of neurons

(2010) Herculano-Houzel   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Rodent phylogeny revised: analysis of six nuclear genes from all major rodent clades

(2009) Shani Blanga-Kanfi et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Evolution of the cerebellar cortex: The selective expansion of prefrontal-projecting cerebellar lobules

(2009) J.H. Balsters et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Virtual endocast of Ignacius graybullianus (Paromomyidae, Primates) and brain evolution in early primates

(2009) M. T. Silcox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellular scaling rules of insectivore brains

(2009) Diana Sarko   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Control of mental activities by internal models in the cerebellum

(2008) Masao Ito   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE