In what concerns cognitive abilities, primates usually outrank other mammals of similar, or
even larger, brain size, as illustrated by comparisons between a macaque monkey and a …

Evolution has generated mammalian brains that vary by a factor of over 100,000 in mass.
Despite such tremendous diversity, brain scaling in mammalian evolution has tacitly been …

Primates are usually found to have richer behavioral repertoires and better cognitive abilities
than rodents of similar brain size. This finding raises the possibility that primate brains differ …

Gorillas and orangutans are primates at least as large as humans, but their brains amount to
about one third of the size of the human brain. This discrepancy has been used as evidence …

Brain size scales as different functions of its number of neurons across mammalian orders
such as rodents, primates, and insectivores. In rodents, we have previously shown that …

The human brain has often been viewed as outstanding among mammalian brains: the most
cognitively able, the largest-than-expected from body size, endowed with an overdeveloped …

Though many modern techniques are available for studying brains, they are difficult to use in
evolutionary contexts that require examination of large numbers of specimens and species …

Human evolution was marked by an extraordinary increase in total brain size relative to
body size. While it is certain that increased encephalization is an important factor …

mediated specifically by PFC. Why, then, would selection on PFC function not be reflected in
a difference in relative, as well as proportional, size, given that other brain components …

What are the rules relating the size of the brain and its structures to the number of cells that
compose them and their average sizes? We have shown previously that the cerebral cortex …