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2020
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Tempo and pattern of avian brain size evolution
Relative brain sizes in birds can rival those of primates, but large-scale patterns and drivers of avian brain evolution remain elusive. Here, we explore the evolution of the fundamental brain-body scaling relationship across the origin and evolution of birds. Using a comprehensive dataset sampling> 2,000 modern birds, fossil birds, and...Ksepka, Daniel T ; Balanoff, Amy M ; Smith, N Adam ; Bever, Gabriel S ; Bhullar, Bhart-Anjan S …
neurobiology, co-variation, encephalization, endocast, allometry, paleontology, and aves
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2012
Journal article
Virtual brain endocasts shed new light on the early evolution of modern birds (Neornithes)
This article is included in 'Program and Abstracts', 72nd Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, October 17—20, 2012.Bourdon, Estelle ; Milner, A C ; Walsh, Stig A
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2016
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A reappraisal of Cerebavis cenomanica (Aves, Ornithurae), from Melovatka, Russia
The evolution of the avian brain is of crucial importance to studies of the transition from non-avian dinosaurs to modern birds, but very few avian fossils provide information on brain morphological development during the Mesozoic. An isolated specimen from the Cenomanian of Melovatka in Russia was described by Kurochkin and...Walsh, Stig A ; Milner, Angela C ; Bourdon, Estelle
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2013
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Avian cerebellar floccular fossa size is not a proxy for flying ability in birds
Extinct animal behavior has often been inferred from qualitative assessments of relative brain region size in fossil endocranial casts. For instance, flight capability in pterosaurs and early birds has been inferred from the relative size of the cerebellar flocculus, which in life protrudes from the lateral surface of the cerebellum....Walsh, Stig A ; Iwaniuk, Andrew N ; Knoll, Monja A ; Bourdon, Estelle ; Barrett, Paul M …