Why direct effects of predation complicate the social brain hypothesis

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

The mate choice mind: studying mate preference, aversion and social cognition in the female poeciliid brain

(2015) Molly E. Cummings   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Smart and safe? Antipredator behavior and breeding success are related to head size in a wild bird

(2015) Markus Öst et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Friendship, reciprocation, and interchange in an individual-based model

(2015) Ivan Puga-Gonzalez et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Evolution of Relative Brain Size in Marsupials Is Energetically Constrained but Not Driven by Behavioral Complexity

(2015) Vera Weisbecker et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Brain size affects female but not male survival under predation threat

(2015) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Distributed cognition and social brains: reductions in mushroom body investment accompanied the origins of sociality in wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

(2015) Sean O'Donnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain size affects the behavioural response to predators in female guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

(2015) Wouter van der Bijl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain size as a driver of avian escape strategy

(2015) Diogo S. M. Samia et al.   Scientific Reports

A larger brain confers a benefit in a spatial mate search learning task in male guppies

(2014) A. Kotrschal et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Specialized visual learning of facial signals of quality in the paper wasp,Polistes dominula

(2014) Michael J. Sheehan et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Comparative support for the expensive tissue hypothesis: Big brains are correlated with smaller gut and greater parental investment in Lake Tanganyika cichlids

(2014) Masahito Tsuboi et al.   EVOLUTION

Comparative Analysis of Classic Brain Component Sizes in Relation to Flightiness in Birds

(2014) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of self-control

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

Assessments in contests are frequently assumed to be complex when simple explanations will suffice

(2013) Robert W. Elwood et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Assessments of fighting ability need not be cognitively complex

(2013) Tim W. Fawcett et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION ON RELATIVE BRAIN SIZE REVEALS A POSITIVE GENETIC CORRELATION BETWEEN BRAIN SIZE AND PROACTIVE PERSONALITY IN THE GUPPY

(2013) Alexander Kotrschal et al.   EVOLUTION

Predator-prey interactions, flight initiation distance and brain size

(2013) A. P. Møller et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Understanding how animals fight with Lloyd Morgan's canon

(2012) Robert W. Elwood et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Revisiting social recognition systems in invertebrates

(2012) Francesca Gherardi et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Brains and bravery: Little evidence of a relationship between brain size and flightiness in shorebirds

(2012) P.-J. GUAY et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

DISENTANGLING EVOLUTIONARY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYLOGENETIC CONFIRMATORY PATH ANALYSIS

(2012) Achaz von Hardenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

What is comparable in comparative cognition?

(2012) L. Chittka et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates

(2011) Susanne Shultz et al.   NATURE

Large body and small brain and group sizes are associated with predator preferences for mammalian prey

(2010) Susanne Shultz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social bonds in birds are associated with brain size and contingent on the correlated evolution of life-history and increased parental investment

(2010) SUSANNE SHULTZ et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Linking learning adaptation to trophic interactions: a brain size-based approach

(2010) Michio Kondoh   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality

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

Learning your own strength: winner and loser effects should change with age and experience

(2010) T. W. Fawcett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parasitoidism, not sociality, is associated with the evolution of elaborate mushroom bodies in the brains of hymenopteran insects

(2010) S. M. Farris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests

(2009) Gareth Arnott et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution

(2009) R.I.M. Dunbar   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sociality, ecology, and relative brain size in lemurs

(2009) Evan L. MacLean 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

Social fishes and single mothers: brain evolution in African cichlids

(2008) A. Gonzalez-Voyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES