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Both social and ecological factors predict ungulate brain size
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Among mammals, the members of some Orders have relatively large brains. Alternative explanations for this have emphasized either social or ecological selection pressures favouring greater information-processing capacities, including large group size, greater foraging efficiency, higher innovation rates, better invasion success and complex problem solving. However, the focal taxa for these analyses (primates, carnivores and birds) often show both varied ecological competence and social complex...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society of London Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal website
- Volume:
- 273
- Issue:
- 1583
- Pages:
- 207-215
- Publication date:
- 2006-01-01
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- EISSN:
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1471-2954
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- English
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- ora:3215
- Deposit date:
- 2010-01-13
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- Royal Society
- Copyright date:
- 2005
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- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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