The costs of a big brain: extreme encephalization results in higher energetic demand and reduced hypoxia tolerance in weakly electric African fishes

Large Brains, Small Guts: The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis Supported within Anurans

(2016) Wen Bo Liao et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

(2016) Herman Pontzer et al.   NATURE

Haematological and genotoxic responses in an urban adapter, the banana bat, foraging at wastewater treatment works

(2015) Samantha Naidoo et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

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

The energetics of electric organ discharge generation in gymnotiform weakly electric fish

(2013) V. L. Salazar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution

(2012) K. Fonseca-Azevedo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Energetic trade-offs between brain size and offspring production: Marsupials confirm a general mammalian pattern

(2011) Karin Isler   BIOESSAYS

LARGE BRAINS BUFFER ENERGETIC EFFECTS OF SEASONAL HABITATS IN CATARRHINE PRIMATES

(2011) Janneke T. van Woerden et al.   EVOLUTION

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Energetics and the evolution of human brain size

(2011) Ana Navarrete et al.   NATURE

Geographic variation in phenotypic plasticity in response to dissolved oxygen in an African cichlid fish

(2010) E. CRISPO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Energetic cost of communication

(2010) P. K. Stoddard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Divergence in Brain Size between Migratory and Resident Birds

(2010) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

The Schnauzenorgan-response of Gnathonemus petersii

(2009) Jacob Engelmann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

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

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

Great ranging associated with greater reproductive investment in mammals

(2008) H. Pontzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA