Costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain: doubts over the evidence that large brains lead to better cognition - ScienceDirect

Animal Behaviour

Volume 86, Issue 4, October 2013, Pages e1-e3

Animal Behaviour

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Why recent work has not shown that bigger brains provide better cognition.
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We provide alternative explanations for the data that do not rely on cognition.

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