Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?

Identifying natural grouping structure in gelada baboons: a network approach

(2016) Pádraig Mac Carron et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates

(2016) Ana F. Navarrete et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Innovation in the collective brain

(2016) Michael Muthukrishna et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2016) Kimberley V. Sukhum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

(2016) C. Krupenye et al.   SCIENCE

The extreme capsule fiber complex in humans and macaque monkeys: a comparative diffusion MRI tractography study

(2015) Rogier B. Mars et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Does implied community size predict likeability of a similar stranger?

(2015) Jacques Launay et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

A synthesis of the theories and concepts of early human evolution

(2015) M. A. Maslin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Investigating Constraints on the Survival of Orangutans Across Borneo and Sumatra

(2015) Charlotte Carne et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Playing with Strangers: Which Shared Traits Attract Us Most to New People?

(2015) Jacques Launay 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

East African climate pulses and early human evolution

(2014) Mark A. Maslin et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The evolution of infanticide by males in mammalian societies

(2014) D. Lukas et al.   SCIENCE

Innovating Innovation Rate and Its Relationship with Brains, Ecology and General Intelligence

(2013) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Diffusion Dynamics of Socially Learned Foraging Techniques in Squirrel Monkeys

(2013) Nicolas Claidière et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Are there specialized circuits for social cognition and are they unique to humans?

(2013) Matthew FS Rushworth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Group Size Predicts Social but Not Nonsocial Cognition in Lemurs

(2013) Evan L. MacLean et al.   PLoS One

Early Human Speciation, Brain Expansion and Dispersal Influenced by African Climate Pulses

(2013) Susanne Shultz et al.   PLoS One

Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

(2013) C. Opie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sociality influences cultural complexity

(2013) M. Muthukrishna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sharing a joke: The effects of a similar sense of humor on affiliation and altruism

(2012) Oliver S. Curry et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Cooperation, behavioural synchrony and status in social networks

(2012) Tamás Dávid-Barrett et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Synaptic scaffold evolution generated components of vertebrate cognitive complexity

(2012) Jess Nithianantharajah et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Embodied cognitive evolution and the cerebellum

(2012) R. A. Barton   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bridging the bonding gap: the transition from primates to humans

(2012) R. I. M. Dunbar   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hominin cognitive evolution: identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record

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

Orbital prefrontal cortex volume predicts social network size: an imaging study of individual differences in humans

(2012) J. Powell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network

(2012) L. A. O'Connell et al.   SCIENCE

Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain

(2012) Carel P. van Schaik et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Social networks reveal cultural behaviour in tool-using dolphins

(2012) Janet Mann et al.   Nature Communications

Latitudinal variation in light levels drives human visual system size

(2011) E. Pearce et al.   Biology Letters

Wild Chimpanzees Inform Ignorant Group Members of Danger

(2011) Catherine Crockford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates

(2011) Susanne Shultz et al.   NATURE

Ventromedial prefrontal volume predicts understanding of others and social network size

(2011) Penelope A. Lewis et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Erratum to: “Orbital prefrontal cortex volume correlates with social cognitive competence” by Powell, J.L. et al. [Neuropsychologia 48 (12) (2010) 3554–3562]

(2011) Joanne L. Powell et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

(2011) S. M. Reader et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative analysis of constraints and caste differences in brain investment among social paper wasps

(2011) S. O'Donnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure

(2011) R. Kanai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Network Size Affects Neural Circuits in Macaques

(2011) J. Sallet et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of Seasonality on Brain Size Evolution: Evidence from Strepsirrhine Primates

(2010) Janneke T. van Woerden et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

(2010) Susanne Shultz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Close social associations in animals and humans: functions and mechanisms of friendship

(2010) Jorg Massen et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Bondedness and sociality

(2010) Robin Dunbar et al.   BEHAVIOUR

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

Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis

(2010) Stephen H Montgomery et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons

(2010) Joan B. Silk et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The costs of family and friends: an 18-month longitudinal study of relationship maintenance and decay

(2010) Sam G.B. Roberts et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Species differences in executive function correlate with hippocampus volume and neocortex ratio across nonhuman primates.

(2010) Susanne Shultz et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Adaptive Evolution of Four Microcephaly Genes and the Evolution of Brain Size in Anthropoid Primates

(2010) S. H. Montgomery et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Amygdala volume and social network size in humans

(2010) Kevin C Bickart et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

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

Socially induced brain development in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

(2010) A. R. Smith 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

Time as an ecological constraint

(2009) R. I. M. Dunbar et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Trade-offs between time, predation risk and life history, and their implications for biogeography: A systems modelling approach with a primate case study

(2009) Caroline Bettridge et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Predator-specific landscapes of fear and resource distribution: effects on spatial range use

(2009) Erik P. Willems et al.   ECOLOGY

Primates, brains and ecology

(2009) T. H. Clutton-Brock et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Social bonds between unrelated females increase reproductive success in feral horses

(2009) E. Z. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival

(2009) J. B. Silk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Network cohesion, group size and neocortex size in female-bonded Old World primates

(2009) J. Lehmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies

(2008) R. A. Hill et al.   Biology Letters

Sex Differences in Feeding Activity Results in Sexual Segregation of Feral Goats

(2008) Robin I. M. Dunbar et al.   ETHOLOGY

Focused grooming networks and stress alleviation in wild female baboons

(2008) Roman M. Wittig et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

A common SNP of MCPH1 is associated with cranial volume variation in Chinese population

(2008) Jin-kai Wang et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Implications of body mass and predation for ape social system and biogeographical distribution

(2008) Julia Lehmann et al.   OIKOS

Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution

(2008) M. Uddin 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

Life history costs and benefits of encephalization: a comparative test using data from long-term studies of primates in the wild

(2007) Nancy L. Barrickman et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Changes in male brain responses to emotional faces from adolescence to middle age

(2007) Quinton Deeley et al.   NEUROIMAGE