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March 27, 2008Brain Behavior and Evolution78 citations

Encephalization in Vertebrates

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RBRoland Bauchot

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The conventional allometric power function, with its slope near 2/3, works well for interspecific scaling of brain vs. body weight in all groups of vertebrates. It fails, however, in extrapolation to vertebrates of the largest size within their groups: these have smaller brains than the equation would predict. We propose a correction, the hyperbolic tangent, to linearize the data over all sizes, and we discuss evolutionary reasons for the relatively small brain size of the largest vertebrates.

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Roland Bauchot (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1e8a0bc07483b92c56045ahttps://doi.org/10.1159/000123769
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