Evolution of the brain and intelligence.

By Gerhard Roth, U. Dicke. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Shoulder Height, Body Mass, and Shape of Proboscideans (2015, methodology): “The volumes of the different restorations were estimated using Graphic Double Integration (Jerison 1973; Hurlburt 1999; Murray and Vickers-Rich 2004), which was applied in MATLAB and where each model was checked pixel by pixel.”
The cognition of ‘nuisance’ species (2019, background): “Animals with larger relative brain sizes are thought to exhibit enhanced domain-general cognitive abilities, such as innovation, behavioural flexibility and learning, compared to animals with smaller relative brain sizes (Sol, 2009b; but see Roth & Dicke, 2005).”
Are bigger brains better? (2009, background): “The best single predictor of brain size is body mass [6,9,10] (Figure 2), but whether brain size is an equally good predictor of behavioural repertoire and cognitive capacity is controversial.”
Mass Prediction in Theropod Dinosaurs (2004, background): “Body size can be defined by a number of parameters, for instance overall height or length, but the variable of primary importance is body mass (e.g. Jerison, 1973; Eisenberg, 1981; McMahon and Bonner, 1983; Calder, 1984; Schmidt-Nielsen, 1984; Damuth and MacFadden, 1990).”
The Search for True Numbers of Neurons and Glial Cells in the Human Brain: A Review of 150 Years of Cell Counting (2016, background): “However, the hypothesis originally formulated by Nissl and Friede of glia being correlated with increasing intelligence persisted in the literature due to the intuitively appealing idea that a relatively large GNR in human cerebral cortex compared with other animals might be related to this species’”
The blood-brain barrier: an engineering perspective (2013, background): “…that these evolutionary increases in brain size are related to an increase in energy input, such as improved diet and availability of food, and changes in energy allocation, such as decreased energy costs associated with locomotion (Holliday, 1986; Roth and Dicke, 2005; Navarrete et al., 2011).”
PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES ON DIDELPHID MARSUPIALS II. NONMOLECULAR DATA AND NEW IRBP SEQUENCES: SEPARATE AND COMBINED ANALYSES OF DIDELPHINE RELATIONSHIPS WITH DENSER TAXON SAMPLING (2003, background): “Didelphids have been considered living exemplars of plesiomorphic or ‘‘generalized’’ therians by many experimental researchers (e.g., Crompton and Hiiemae, 1970; Jenkins, 1971; Jerison, 1973; Silveira et al., 1982; Harder, 1992; Frost and Masterton, 1994; Bedford, 1996), whereas comparative biologis”
Elephant cognition in primate perspective (2009, background): “Although neurons are less densely packed in elephant brains than in primates’, elephant brains nevertheless contain as many cortical neurons as do human brains ( Roth & Dicke, 2005 ).”
Cultural Adaptations to Environmental Variability: An Evolutionary Account of East–West Differences (2011, background): “The same cultural evolution of social and individual learning that produce the contemporary East–West differences among human groups has been part of species evolution from the beginning, as evidenced by brain enlargement especially in the frontal lobes of most Cenozoic mammals (Jerison 1973).”
Intelligence in Corvids and Apes: A Case of Convergent Evolution? (2009, background): “Identifying ‘intelligence’ in animals in practice typically amounts to observing animals performing complex behaviours in their environment, and looking for evidence for ‘behavioural flexibility’ or the appearance of novel solutions that are not part of the animal’s repertoire (Roth & Dicke 2005).”
Motifs in Brain Networks (2004, background): “Brain networks have increased in size and complexity (Jerison 1973; Butler and Hodos 1996; Kaas 2000; Krubitzer 2000), as have the ﬂexibility of interactions with the environment and the range of potential behaviors that can be generated (Changizi 2003).”