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Why birds and mammals could evolve larger brains than other vertebrates? Our phylogenetic comparative study including 4,587 vertebrate species suggests that the decoupling of brain-body developmental integration may have been the key.
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Why is it important?
Our findings suggest that early stage developmental mechanisms play critical role in brain size evolution, something that has been dismissed in the literature for decades.
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This page is a summary of: Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals, Nature Ecology & Evolution, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0632-1.
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