Macroevolution of Toothed Whales Exceptional Relative Brain Size

Simultaneous detection of macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic means and rate of change with and within phylogenetic trees including extinct species

(2019) S. Castiglione et al.   PLoS One

Primate Brain Anatomy: New Volumetric MRI Measurements for Neuroanatomical Studies

(2018) Ana F. Navarrete et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of cranial telescoping in echolocating whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti)

(2018) Morgan Churchill et al.   EVOLUTION

A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution

(2018) Silvia Castiglione et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality

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

Ultrasonic hearing and echolocation in the earliest toothed whales

(2016) Travis Park et al.   Biology Letters

Comparison of Dolphins' Body and Brain Measurements with Four Other Groups of Cetaceans Reveals Great Diversity

(2016) Sam H. Ridgway et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Neuroanatomy of the killer whale (Orcinus orca): a magnetic resonance imaging investigation of structure with insights on function and evolution

(2016) Alexandra Wright et al.   Brain Structure & Function

From Teeth to Baleen and Raptorial to Bulk Filter Feeding in Mysticete Cetaceans: The Role of Paleontological, Genetic, and Geochemical Data in Feeding Evolution and Ecology

(2016) Annalisa Berta et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Brain evolution and development: adaptation, allometry and constraint

(2016) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass

(2015) Suzana Herculano-Houzel et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Body Weight and Relative Brain Size (Encephalization) in Eocene Archaeoceti (Cetacea)

(2015) Philip D. Gingerich   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity

(2015) F. G. Marx et al.   Royal Society Open Science

RidgeRace: ridge regression for continuous ancestral character estimation on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Christina Kratsch et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation

(2014) Jonathan H. Geisler et al.   NATURE

Molecular evolution tracks macroevolutionary transitions in Cetacea

(2014) Michael R. McGowen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Quantitative relationships in delphinid neocortex

(2014) Heidi S. Mortensen et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF CETACEAN BRAIN AND BODY SIZE

(2013) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   EVOLUTION

Questioning the interpretations of behavioral observations of cetaceans: Is there really support for a special intellectual status for this mammalian order?

(2013) P.R. Manger   NEUROSCIENCE

Comparative anatomy and evolutionary history of suction feeding in cetaceans

(2010) Cassie Johnston et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

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

Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans

(2010) G. J. Slater et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis

(2009) R. P. FRECKLETON   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Brain size and ecology in small mammals

(2009) Georgina M. Mace et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Radiation of Extant Cetaceans Driven by Restructuring of the Oceans

(2009) Mette E. Steeman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Tripartite synapses: astrocytes process and control synaptic information

(2009) Gertrudis Perea et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES