Social complexity, diet, and brain evolution: modeling the effects of colony size, worker size, brain size, and foraging behavior on colony fitness in ants
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Collective intelligence may reduce brain size in both humans and ants.
“Collective intelligence may reduce brain size in both clades (Bailey and Geary, 2009;Feinerman and Traniello, 2016).”
From When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants (2021) · cites this paper as Feinerman and Traniello, 2016
Group-level cognition may select for reduced brain size and/or adaptive brain size variation.
“Computational models (e.g., Feinerman and Traniello, 2016;Reséndiz-Benhumea et al., 2021) and patterns in some ant clades (Muscedere and Traniello, 2012;Riveros et al., 2012;Muratore et al., 2021) suggest that group-level cognition may select for reduced brain size and/or adaptive brain size variation.”
From When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants (2021) · cites this paper as Feinerman and Traniello, 2016
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Social complexity influences brain investment and neural operation costs in ants
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Shrunken social brains? a minimal model of the role of social interaction in neural complexity.
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- Authors
- Feinerman, O., & Traniello, J. F. A.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Boston University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Feinerman, Ofer
- Venue
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Published
- 2015-11-12
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1063-1074
- ISSN
- 0340-5443 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0762
- OpenAlex
- W2148875605
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 3.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- zenodo.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (publishedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- European Research Council (648032)
- Israel Science Foundation (712166)
- Clore Duffield Foundation
- Minerva Foundation
- National Science Foundation (IOS‐1354291)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Keywords
- brain evolution, social complexity, ants, colony size, worker size, brain size, foraging behavior, diet, collective cognition, division of labor, worker polymorphism, colony fitness, energy trade-offs, eusocial insects, foraging performance
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