A model for brain life history evolution

Does absolute brain size really predict self-control? Hand-tracking training improves performance on the A-not-B task

(2016) S. A. Jelbert et al.   Biology Letters

Invasion fitness, inclusive fitness, and reproductive numbers in heterogeneous populations

(2016) Laurent Lehmann et al.   EVOLUTION

Light enough to travel or wise enough to stay? Brain size evolution and migratory behavior in birds

(2016) Orsolya Vincze   EVOLUTION

Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans

(2016) Katherine D. Zink et al.   NATURE

The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates

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

Extraordinary intelligence and the care of infants

(2016) Steven T. Piantadosi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Brain aerobic glycolysis and motor adaptation learning

(2016) Benjamin J. Shannon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

(2016) Seweryn Olkowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Absolute, not relative brain size correlates with sociality in ground squirrels

(2016) Jan Matějů et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predators inhibit brain cell proliferation in natural populations of electric fish,Brachyhypopomus occidentalis

(2016) Kent D. Dunlap et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Skill ontogeny among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists

(2015) Eric Schniter et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution

(2015) Richard Potts et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The canonical equation of adaptive dynamics for life histories: from fitness-returns to selection gradients and Pontryagin’s maximum principle

(2015) Johan A. Jacob Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

(2015) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

Meta-analysis of associations between human brain volume and intelligence differences: How strong are they and what do they mean?

(2015) Jakob Pietschnig et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The Janus face of Darwinian competition

(2015) Arend Hintze et al.   Scientific Reports

Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery

(2015) Richard McElreath et al.   PLoS One

GPOPS-II

(2014) Michael A. Patterson et al.   ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE

An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition

(2014) Michal Arbilly et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Collective action and the collaborative brain

(2014) S. Gavrilets   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

(2014) C. W. Kuzawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of self-control

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

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

Not Just a Theory—The Utility of Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Biology

(2014) Maria R. Servedio et al.   PLOS 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

Group Size Predicts Social but Not Nonsocial Cognition in Lemurs

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

Intrinsic resting-state activity predicts working memory brain activation and behavioral performance

(2012) Qihong Zou et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Ontogenetic Scaling of Metabolism, Growth, and Assimilation: Testing Metabolic Scaling Theory with Manduca sexta Larvae

(2012) Katie E. Sears et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa

(2012) F. Berna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

(2011) C. P. van Schaik et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

(2011) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence

(2010) L. Cosmides et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Kin competition, natal dispersal and the moulding of senescence by natural selection

(2010) O. Ronce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic signatures of diet-related shifts during human origins

(2010) C. C. Babbitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

LIFE HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARENTAL CARE

(2009) Hope Klug et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Revisiting a Model of Ontogenetic Growth: Estimating Model Parameters from Theory and Data

(2008) Melanie E. Moses et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny

(2008) C. Hou et al.   SCIENCE

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