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Relative Brain Size

Relative Brain Size is a neuroanatomical metric that quantifies the deviation of an organism's actual brain size from the expected brain size based on allometric scaling within its taxonomic group, serving to compare cognitive capacity across species while controlling for body size.

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Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled‐up primate brain

Frederico A. C. Azevedo, Ludmila R.B. Carvalho, Lea T. Grinberg et al. · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · 2009 · 2.3K citations

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The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

Suzana Herculano‐Houzel · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2009 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Principles of brain evolution

G. F. Striedter · Choice Reviews Online · 2005 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Linked Regularities in the Development and Evolution of Mammalian Brains

Barbara L. Finlay, Richard B. Darlington · Science · 1995 · 1.2K citations

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Social intelligence, innovation, and enhanced brain size in primates

Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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    Niclas Kolm

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    41 publications · 2.8K citations

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    Alexander Kotrschal

    Stockholm University, Sweden

    40 publications · 2.5K citations

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    Andrew N. Iwaniuk

    University of Lethbridge, Canada

    33 publications · 2.3K citations

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    Daniel Sol

    Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications, Spain

    22 publications · 2.4K citations

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    Louis Lefebvre

    McGill University, Canada

    16 publications · 2.6K citations

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  1. Stockholm University

    Stockholm, Sweden

    29 h-index

    133 publications

    6.4K citations

  2. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    26 h-index

    59 publications

    8.6K citations

  3. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    23 h-index

    50 publications

    6.2K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    22 h-index

    60 publications

    10K citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    22 h-index

    41 publications

    4K citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    51 publications

    6.4K citations

  7. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    21 h-index

    38 publications

    6.7K citations

  8. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    21 h-index

    79 publications

    8.9K citations

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  1. Brain Behavior and Evolution

    97 publications · 6.2K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 37 publications · 7.9K citations

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  4. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    39 publications · 4.1K citations

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    Repository · 44 publications · 2K citations

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