Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds
Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Environmental variability has long been postulated as a major selective force in the evolution of large brains. However, assembling evidence for this hypothesis has proved difficult. Here, by combining brain size information for over 1,200 bird species with remote-sensing analyses to estimate temporal variation in ecosystem productivity, we show th...
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Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds
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2041-1723
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2041-1723
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10.1038/ncomms13971
