Brain size evolution in whales and dolphins: new data from fossil mysticetes

A natural endocast of an early Miocene odontocete and its implications in cetacean brain evolution

(2020) Michelangelo Bisconti et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

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

Co‐evolution of cerebral and cerebellar expansion in cetaceans

(2019) Amandine Sophie Muller et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Macroevolution of Toothed Whales Exceptional Relative Brain Size

(2019) Carmela Serio et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture

(2019) Michael R McGowen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Gigantism Precedes Filter Feeding in Baleen Whale Evolution

(2018) R. Ewan Fordyce et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

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

Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates

(2017) Sally E. Street et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

New records of the dolphin Albertocetus meffordorum (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) from the lower Oligocene of South Carolina: Encephalization, sensory anatomy, postcranial morphology, and ontogeny of early odontocetes

(2017) Robert W. Boessenecker et al.   PLoS One

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

Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history

(2016) Herman Pontzer et al.   NATURE

geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

(2014) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2014) Jonathan H. Geisler et al.   NATURE

THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF CETACEAN BRAIN AND BODY SIZE

(2013) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   EVOLUTION

Paleoecology of archaeocete whales throughout the Eocene: Dietary adaptations revealed by microwear analysis

(2013) Julia M. Fahlke et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

How Large Should Whales Be?

(2013) Aaron Clauset   PLoS One

Multiple Determinants of Whole and Regional Brain Volume among Terrestrial Carnivorans

(2012) Eli M. Swanson et al.   PLoS One

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record

(2011) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN 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