Search for dissertations about: "Joah Madden"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Joah Madden.

2. 1. Why and how brain size evolves : Sociality, predation and allometry

   Author : Wouter van der Bijl; Niclas Kolm; Joah Madden; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; brain size; brain size evolution; encephalization; predation; predator inspection; sociality; animal contest; constraint; etologi; Ethology;

   Abstract : The evolution of the vertebrate brain has remained a topic of intense interest from biologists over many decades. Evolutionary biologists have seen it as an intriguing example of how the size and structure of a trait evolves across large phylogenies and under body size constraints, with both large shifts in deep evolutionary time and continuous smaller scale adaptation. READ MORE