Relation of Gestation Time to Brain Weight for Placental Mammals: Implications for the Theory of Vertebrate Growth
By G. Sacher, E. Staffeldt. 1974
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- Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “Monkeys possess approximately 65% of their adult brain size at birth whereas human infants only possess around 25% of their adult brain size at birth (Malkova, Heuer, & Saunders, 2006; Sacher & Staffeldt, 1974).”
- The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary Perspective (2003, background): “For example, Sacher & Staffeldt (1974) and Martin (1981, 1984) proposed that larger-bodied species incur savings of scale that allow surplus energy to be invested into fetal brain growth in a way that is not possible for smaller-bodied species.”
- Life in the slow lane? Demography and life histories of male and female sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) (2006, background): “…size of primates exceeds the average value for most other orders of mammals (Martin, 1990), and so the idea that brain tissue is produced slowly and constrains overall growth rates (Sacher & Staffeld, 1974) ®tted well with the general observation that primates live their lives `in the slow lane'.”
- Behavioural plasticity: an interaction between evolution and experience (2010, background): “Also, gestation time is positively correlated to brain weight in placental mammals (Sacher and Staffeldt 1974) and might be an example of a constitutive cost of behavioural plasticity.”
- Heterochrony and Cross-Species Intersensory Matching by Infant Vervet Monkeys (2009, background): “Given that the capuchins have a similar precocial time course for brain growth [14], this suggests that adult vervets are likely to exhibit cross-species intersensory matching into adulthood and, thus, that vervets’ intersensory perceptual responding to other monkey species never declines.”