Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Parental provisioning drives brain size in birds
M. Griesser, S. M. Drobniak, S. M. Graber, C. van Schaik
This study shows that parental provisioning strongly predicts brain size variation across bird species, explaining why altricial birds have larger brains than precocial ones.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2121467120