Some birds achieve primate-like levels of cognition, even though their brains tend to be
much smaller in absolute size. This poses a fundamental problem in comparative and …

The human brain is often considered to be the most cognitively capable among mammalian
brains and to be much larger than expected for a mammal of our body size. Although the …

Corvids possess cognitive skills, matching those of nonhuman primates. However, how
these species with their small brains achieve such feats remains elusive. Recent studies …

Reconstructing the evolution of brain information-processing capacity is paramount for
understanding the rise of complex cognition. Comparative studies of brain evolution typically …

What explains the superior cognitive abilities of the human brain compared to other, larger
brains? Here we investigate the possibility that the human brain has a larger number of …

Neurons are the basic computational units of the brain, but brain size is the predominant
surrogate measure of brain functional capacity in comparative and cognitive neuroscience …

Despite significant progress in understanding the evolution of the mammalian brain,
relatively little is known of the patterns of evolutionary change in the avian brain. In …

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 …

A longstanding issue in biology is whether the intelligence of animals can be predicted by
absolute or relative brain size. However, progress has been hampered by an insufficient …

Carnivorans are a diverse group of mammals that includes carnivorous, omnivorous and
herbivorous, domesticated and wild species, with a large range of brain sizes. Carnivory is …