Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution.
Daniel T Ksepka,
Amy M Balanoff,
N Adam Smith,
Gabriel S Bever,
Bhart-Anjan S Bhullar,
Estelle Bourdon,
Edward L Braun,
J Gordon Burleigh,
Julia A Clarke,
Matthew W Colbert,
Jeremy R Corfield,
Federico J Degrange,
Vanesa L De Pietri,
Catherine M Early,
Daniel J Field,
Paul M Gignac,
Maria Eugenia Leone Gold,
Rebecca T Kimball,
Soichiro Kawabe,
Louis Lefebvre,
Jesús Marugán-Lobón,
Carrie S Mongle,
Ashley Morhardt,
Mark A Norell,
Ryan C Ridgely,
Ryan S Rothman,
R Paul Scofield,
Claudia P Tambussi,
Christopher R Torres,
Marcel van Tuinen,
Stig A Walsh,
Akinobu Watanabe,
Lawrence M Witmer,
Alexandra K Wright,
Lindsay E Zanno,
Erich D Jarvis,
Jeroen B Smaers
Apr 28, 2020
Relative brain sizes in birds can rival those of primates, but large-scale patterns and drivers of avian brain evolution remain elusive. Here, we explore the evolution of the fundamental brain-body scaling relationship across...