Allometric analysis and brain size

My aim in this paper is to demonstrate how quantitative allometric analyses have recently been used to generate and test theories that explain the reasons for differences in brain size among birds and mammals. The work I shall report is aimed at answering four major questions. First, how does adult brain size change with adult body size across species and higher level taxa? Second, what categories of animals have larger brain sizes for their body sizes than others? Third, how do differences in the ontogeny of the brain correlate with adult brain size? Fourth, how have different explanations for the evolution of brain size differences fared when confronted with the data?

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