Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates

By L. Lefebvre, Simon M. Reader, D. Sol. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Mate choice for cognitive traits: a review of the evidence in nonhuman vertebrates (2011, background): “Although the concept of g has been developed at the intraspecific level, positive correlations between cognitive abilities across species, genera and parvorders have led several authors (Reader and Laland 2002; Lefebvre et al. 2004; Deaner et al. 2006; Lefebvre 2010) to posit concerted evolution of ”
The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain (2009, positive): “Among birds, those that are larger-brained (corvids, parrots and owls) are also considered the most intelligent (Lefebvre et al., 2004).”
Evolution of the brain and intelligence. (2005, positive): “[8]). Among birds, corvids, parrots and owls are considered more intelligent [ 11 ], and among mammals, primates and cetaceans [12].”
Living in the city: can anyone become an ‘urban exploiter'? (2007, background): “Despite the strong correlations between brain size and behavioural flexibility (Lefebvre et al., 1997, 2004), it is thus not that surprising that we failed to detect significant effects.”
Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds (2009, positive): “Measures of cognition are often correlated with one another (Lefebvre et al. 2004), suggesting that selection may act on some measure of general intelligence rather than on innovativeness per se.”
Animal tool use: current definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog (2010, positive): “The two exceptions are the Aves Order Passeriformes and the Mammalia Order Primates which have been extracted for ease of reference and to facilitate comparisons similar to those by Marler (1996) and Lefebvre et al. (2004).”
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats (2012, background): “This may explain the relatively large number of field reports of innovative behaviour in large-brained birds and primate species, compared to their smallerbrained counterparts (Lefebvre et al. 2004).”
Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes. (2012, background): “More detailed work on a few species suggests that innovative species tend to have an exploratory BT, and to be good problem solvers perhaps because they have large brain regions associated with problem solving (Lefebvre et al. 2004).”
The evolution of self-control (2014, background): “In contrast, the encephalization hypothesis argues that an increase in brain volume relative to body size was of primary importance (108, 110, 111, 123).”
Heritability and the evolution of cognitive traits (2015, methodology): “Many of these studies use a comparative phylogenetic approach to associate brain size with traits such as innovation (Reader and Laland 2002; Lefebvre et al. 2004; Reader et al. 2011), social learning (Reader et al.”