The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time A Goswami, JB Smaers, C Soligo, PD Polly Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 …, 2014 | 327 | 2014 |
The evolution of human and ape hand proportions S Almécija, JB Smaers, WL Jungers Nature communications 6 (1), 7717, 2015 | 204 | 2015 |
Exceptional evolutionary expansion of prefrontal cortex in great apes and humans JB Smaers, A Gómez-Robles, AN Parks, CC Sherwood Current Biology 27 (5), 714-720, 2017 | 185 | 2017 |
Primate prefrontal cortex evolution: human brains are the extreme of a lateralized ape trend JB Smaers, J Steele, CR Case, A Cowper, K Amunts, K Zilles Brain Behavior and Evolution 77 (2), 67-78, 2011 | 144 | 2011 |
Is the prefrontal cortex especially enlarged in the human brain? Allometric relations and remapping factors RE Passingham, JB Smaers Brain, behavior and evolution 84 (2), 156-166, 2014 | 122 | 2014 |
Trabecular bone structure correlates with hand posture and use in hominoids ZJ Tsegai, TL Kivell, T Gross, NH Nguyen, DH Pahr, JB Smaers, ... PloS one 8 (11), e78781, 2013 | 121 | 2013 |
Brain reorganization, not relative brain size, primarily characterizes anthropoid brain evolution JB Smaers, C Soligo Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1759), 20130269, 2013 | 118 | 2013 |
Functional mastery of percussive technology in nut-cracking and stone-flaking actions: experimental comparison and implications for the evolution of the human brain B Bril, J Smaers, J Steele, R Rein, T Nonaka, G Dietrich, E Biryukova, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367 …, 2012 | 115 | 2012 |
The evolution of mammalian brain size JB Smaers, RS Rothman, DR Hudson, AM Balanoff, B Beatty, ... Science Advances 7 (18), eabe2101, 2021 | 108 | 2021 |
Tempo and pattern of avian brain size evolution DT Ksepka, AM Balanoff, NA Smith, GS Bever, BAS Bhullar, E Bourdon, ... Current Biology 30 (11), 2026-2036. e3, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
Comparative analyses of evolutionary rates reveal different pathways to encephalization in bats, carnivorans, and primates JB Smaers, DKN Dechmann, A Goswami, C Soligo, K Safi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (44), 18006-18011, 2012 | 90 | 2012 |
Frontal white matter volume is associated with brain enlargement and higher structural connectivity in anthropoid primates JB Smaers, A Schleicher, K Zilles, L Vinicius PLoS one 5 (2), e9123, 2010 | 88 | 2010 |
Significant neuroanatomical variation among domestic dog breeds EE Hecht, JB Smaers, WD Dunn, M Kent, TM Preuss, DA Gutman Journal of Neuroscience 39 (39), 7748-7758, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
Testing species’ deviation from allometric predictions using the phylogenetic regression JB Smaers, FJ Rohlf Evolution 70 (5), 1145-1149, 2016 | 83 | 2016 |
A cerebellar substrate for cognition evolved multiple times independently in mammals JB Smaers, AH Turner, A Gómez-Robles, CC Sherwood Elife 7, e35696, 2018 | 63 | 2018 |
Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays C Pimiento, JL Cantalapiedra, K Shimada, DJ Field, JB Smaers Evolution 73 (3), 588-599, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution A Gómez-Robles, JB Smaers, RL Holloway, PD Polly, BA Wood Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (3), 468-473, 2017 | 61 | 2017 |
Modeling the evolution of cortico‐cerebellar systems in primates JB Smaers, J Steele, K Zilles Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1225 (1), 176-190, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
The corpus callosum in primates: processing speed of axons and the evolution of hemispheric asymmetry KA Phillips, CD Stimpson, JB Smaers, MA Raghanti, B Jacobs, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1818), 20151535, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
Different evolutionary pathways underlie the morphology of wrist bones in hominoids TL Kivell, AP Barros, JB Smaers BMC evolutionary biology 13, 1-12, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |