Both diet and sociality affect primate brain-size evolution.
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DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac075
Abstract: Increased brain size in humans and other primates is hypothesized to confer cognitive benefits but brings costs associated with growing and maintaining energetically expensive neural tissue. Previous studies have argued that changes in either diet… read more here.
Keywords: diet sociality; brain; brain size; primate brain ... See more keywords