The allometry of brain size in mammals

Sociality does not drive the evolution of large brains in eusocial African mole-rats

(2018) Kristina Kverková et al.   Scientific Reports

Equal fitness paradigm explained by a trade-off between generation time and energy production rate

(2018) James H. Brown et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Inference of ecological and social drivers of human brain-size evolution

(2018) Mauricio González-Forero et al.   NATURE

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

(2018) Masahito Tsuboi et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The correlated evolution of antipredator defences and brain size in mammals

(2017) Theodore Stankowich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality

(2017) Alex R. DeCasien et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The social and cultural roots of whale and dolphin brains

(2017) Kieran C. R. Fox et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Big brains stabilize populations and facilitate colonization of variable habitats in birds

(2017) Trevor S. Fristoe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Larger brain size indirectly increases vulnerability to extinction in mammals

(2016) Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer et al.   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

An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles

(2015) Nathan P. Myhrvold et al.   ECOLOGY

THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF CETACEAN BRAIN AND BODY SIZE

(2013) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   EVOLUTION

Validating methods for estimating endocranial volume in individual red deer (Cervus elaphus)

(2012) Corina J. Logan et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

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

Allomaternal care, life history and brain size evolution in mammals

(2012) Karin Isler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Comparative analyses of evolutionary rates reveal different pathways to encephalization in bats, carnivorans, and primates

(2012) J. B. Smaers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Energetics and the evolution of human brain size

(2011) Ana Navarrete et al.   NATURE

Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   PLoS One

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

Large-brained mammals live longer

(2010) C. GONZÁLEZ-LAGOS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals

(2010) J. R. Banavar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Brain Size Predicts the Success of Mammal Species Introduced into Novel Environments

(2008) Daniel Sol et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST