Virtual endocast of late Paleocene Niptomomys (Microsyopidae, Euarchonta) and early primate brain evolution

CL White, JI Bloch, PE Morse, MT Silcox - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleogene microsyopid plesiadapiforms are among the oldest euarchontans known from
relatively complete crania. While cranial endocasts are known for larger-bodied Eocene …

Evolutionary history of hominin brain size and phylogenetic comparative methods

C Pestana, AA de Sousa, OS Todorov… - Progress in Brain …, 2023 - Elsevier
An absolutely and relatively large brain has traditionally been viewed as a distinctive
characteristic of the Homo genus, with anatomically modern humans presented at the apex …

Allometric patterns in phrynosomatid lizards and the implications for reconstructing body size for fossils

JA Knight, DT Ledesma, ME Kemp - Evolutionary Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Body size is an important life history trait that for fossils can be reconstructed by utilizing
scaling relationships between body size and measurements on isolated bones from extant …