Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals

Mutation predicts 40 million years of fly wing evolution

(2017) David Houle et al.   NATURE

Minimal variation in eutherian brain growth rates during fetal neurogenesis

(2017) Andrew C. Halley   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prenatal Brain-Body Allometry in Mammals

(2016) Andrew C. Halley   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of brain-body allometry in Lake Tanganyika cichlids

(2016) Masahito Tsuboi et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolutionary modeling and correcting for observation error support a 3/5 brain-body allometry for primates

(2016) Mark Grabowski et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Absolute, not relative brain size correlates with sociality in ground squirrels

(2016) Jan Matějů et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Constraints Evolve: Context Dependency of Gene Effects Allows Evolution of Pleiotropy

(2015) Mihaela Pavličev et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Quantitative genetic analysis of brain size variation in sticklebacks: support for the mosaic model of brain evolution

(2015) Kristina Noreikiene et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ontogenetic Shape Change in the Chicken Brain: Implications for Paleontology

(2015) Soichiro Kawabe et al.   PLoS One

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic constraints predict evolutionary divergence in Dalechampia blossoms

(2014) G. H. Bolstad et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of self-control

(2014) E. L. MacLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Epistasis and natural selection shape the mutational architecture of complex traits

(2014) Adam G. Jones et al.   Nature Communications

Mammalian skull heterochrony reveals modular evolution and a link between cranial development and brain size

(2014) Daisuke Koyabu et al.   Nature Communications

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

On the Relationship between Ontogenetic and Static Allometry

(2013) Christophe Pélabon et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

(2013) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

ALLOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF ALLOMETRY

(2013) Kjetil L. Voje et al.   EVOLUTION

THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF CETACEAN BRAIN AND BODY SIZE

(2013) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   EVOLUTION

Developmental constraints on behavioural flexibility

(2013) K. E. Holekamp et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

IS YOUR PHYLOGENY INFORMATIVE? MEASURING THE POWER OF COMPARATIVE METHODS

(2012) Carl Boettiger et al.   EVOLUTION

Comparative analysis of encephalization in mammals reveals relaxed constraints on anthropoid primate and cetacean brain scaling

(2012) A. M. BODDY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Neuroecology of cartilaginous fishes: the functional implications of brain scaling

(2012) K. E. Yopak   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Interpreting the Evolutionary Regression: The Interplay Between Observational and Biological Errors in Phylogenetic Comparative Studies

(2012) Thomas F. Hansen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Heritability is not Evolvability

(2011) Thomas F. Hansen et al.   Evolutionary Biology

A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Maternal investment, life histories, and the costs of brain growth in mammals

(2011) R. A. Barton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT AND ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

(2010) Douglas J. Futuyma   EVOLUTION

Shark tales: A molecular species-level phylogeny of sharks (Selachimorpha, Chondrichthyes)

(2010) Ximena Vélez-Zuazo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Abundant Genetic Variation + Strong Selection = Multivariate Genetic Constraints: A Geometric View of Adaptation

(2009) Bruce Walsh et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Expensive Brain: A framework for explaining evolutionary changes in brain size

(2009) Karin Isler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Brain-size evolution and sociality in Carnivora

(2009) J. A. Finarelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION AND STABILITY OF THE G-MATRIX

(2008) Stevan J. Arnold et al.   EVOLUTION

Developmental origins of species differences in telencephalon and tectum size: Morphometric comparisons between a parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) and a quail (Colinus virgianus)

(2008) Georg F. Striedter et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters

(2008) T. F. HANSEN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Endocranial volumes of primate species: scaling analyses using a comprehensive and reliable data set

(2008) Karin Isler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION