Brain size/Bibliography

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• Sol, D. & T.D. Price (2008), "Brain Size and the Diversification of Body Size in Birds", Am Nat 172: 170-177, DOI:10.1086/589461 ^[e]

Based on data about brain size and body size in 120 families of birds, this study shows by means of path analysis that about 12% of within-family body size disparity can be explained by the average residual brain size within that family. Based on observations that brain size correlates with a number of cognitive measures, it is then concluded that behaviour might contribute to evolutionary diversification.

• Grimaldi, A.M.; C. Agnisola & G. Fiorito (2007), "Using ultrasound to estimate brain size in the cephalopod Octopus vulgaris Cuvier in vivo", Brain Research 1183: 66–73, DOI:10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.032 ^[e]
• Jaaro, H. & M. Fainzilber (2006), "Building Complex Brains-Missing Pieces in an Evolutionary Puzzle", Brain Behav Evol 68 (3): 191–195, DOI:10.1159/000094088 ^[e]
• Bond, J. & C.G. Woods (2006), "Cytoskeletal genes regulating brain size", Current Opinion in Cell Biology 18 (1): 95–101, DOI:10.1016/j.ceb.2005.11.004 ^[e]
• Depaepe, Vanessa; Nathalie Suarez-Gonzalez & Audrey Dufour et al. (2005), "Ephrin signalling controls brain size by regulating apoptosis of neural progenitors", Nature 435 (7046): 1244–1250, DOI:10.1038/nature03651 ^[e]
• Feng, Y. & C.A. Walsh (2004), "Mitotic Spindle Regulation by Nde1 Controls Cerebral Cortical Size", Neuron 44 (2): 279–293, DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2004.09.023 ^[e]
• Dietschy, John M. & Stephen D. Turley (2004), "Cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system during early development and in the mature animal", Journal of Lipid Research 45 (8): 1375–1397, DOI:10.1194/jlr.R400004-JLR200 ^[e]
• Harrison, K.H.; P.R. Hof & S.S.H. Wang (2002), "Scaling laws in the mammalian neocortex: Does form provide clues to function?", Journal of Neurocytology 31 (3): 289–298, DOI:10.1023/A:1024178127195 ^[e]
• Clark, D.A.; P.P. Mitra & S.S. Wang (2001), "Scalable architecture in mammalian brains", Nature 411 (6834): 189–93, DOI:10.1038/35075564 ^[e]
• Henneberg, M. (1998), "Evolution of the Human Brain: is Bigger Better?", Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 25 (9): 745–749, DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02289.x ^[e]
• Pakkenberg, B. & H.J.G. Gundersen (1997), "Neocortical Neuron Number in Humans: Effect of Sex and Age", The Journal of Comparative Neurology 384: 312–320
• Aiello, L.C. & P. Wheeler (1995), "The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: the Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution", Current Anthropology 36 (2): 199-221, DOI:10.1086/204350 ^[e]

Proposed that the energetic costs of the resting metabolism of different organs within the body have to be balanced. Specifically, such a trade-off is hypothesized to have governed the increasing brain size during primate and human evolution, in concert with a decrease in the amount of digestive tissue. For a critique, see Hladik et al. (1999).

• Hofman, M.A. (1993), "Encephalization and the evolution of longevity in mammals", J. Evol. Biol. 6 (2): 209–227, DOI:10.1046/j.1420-9101.1993.6020209.x ^[e]
• von Bonin, G. (1934), "On the size of man's brain as indicated by skull capacity", The Journal of Comparative Neurology 59 (1): 1–28, DOI:10.1002/cne.900590102 ^[e]