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Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates
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Several comparative research programs have focused on the cognitive, life history and ecological traits that account for variation in brain size. We review one of these programs, a program that uses the reported frequency of behavioral innovation as an operational measure of cognition. In both birds and primates, innovation rate is positively correlated with the relative size of association areas in the brain, the hyperstriatum ventrale and neostriatum in birds and the isocortex and striatum in primates. Innovation rate is also positively correlated with the taxonomic distribution of tool use, as well as interspecific differences in learning. Some features of cognition have thus evolved in a remarkably similar way in primates and at least six phyletically-independent avian lineages. In birds, innovation rate is associated with the ability of species to deal with seasonal changes in the environment and to establish themselves in new regions, and it also appears to be related to the rate at which lineages diversify. Innovation rate provides a useful tool to quantify inter-taxon differences in cognition and to test classic hypotheses regarding the evolution of the brain.
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Cultural inheritance and diversification of diet in variable environments
van der Post, D. J., & Hogeweg, P. (2009) · Animal Behaviour · doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.04.009 · Cited by 28
“…that cognitive abilities help individuals adapt to environmental change through a combination of behavioural innovations and their spread through social learning, and drive cultural change and eventually evolutionary diversification (see Wyles et al. 1983; Lefebvre et al. 2004; Sol et al. 2005).”
BackgroundAn evaluation of the geographic method for recognizing innovations in nature, using zoo orangutans
Lehner, S. R., Burkart, J. M., & van Schaik, C. P. (2010) · Primates · doi:10.1007/s10329-009-0184-8 · Cited by 28
“In contrast, although innovation is a key component of most definitions of culture (McGrew 1998; Rendell and Whitehead 2001) and the ultimate source of all cultural change (Kummer 1971; de Waal 2001), it was largely ignored until Reader and Laland’s (2003) edited volume recently rekindled interest in it (Reader and La…”
BackgroundMaternal effects and the evolution of brain size in birds: Overlooked developmental constraints
Garamszegi, L. Z., Biard, C., Eens, M., Møller, A. P., Saino, N., & Surai, P. F. (2007) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.11.008 · Cited by 26
“In addition, highly significant repeatabilities among studies indicate that information on relative brain size can be combined across sources (Garamszegi and Eens, 2004; Garamszegi et al., 2005b; Lefebvre et al., 2004).”
Humans copy rapidly increasing choices in a multiarmed bandit problem
Toelch, U., Bruce, M., Meeus, M., & Reader, S. (2010) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.03.002 · Cited by 24
Self-citationPsittacine cognition: Individual differences and sources of variation
Cussen, V. A. (2016) · Behavioural Processes · doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2016.11.008 · Cited by 27
Asymmetry of different brain structures in homing pigeons with and without navigational experience
Mehlhorn, J., Haastert, B., & Rehkámper, G. (2010) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.043208 · Cited by 30
“Furthermore, particularly the mesopallium is associated with cognitive behaviour (Lefebvre et al., 2004) and thus an enlargement of the left mesopallium in pigeons without navigational experience is really unexpected given that navigation in birds is cognitive, particularly there is not necessarily…”
BackgroundTheory, the Final Frontier? A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Role of Theory in Psychological Articles
Beller, S., & Bender, A. (2017) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00951 · Cited by 33
Healy, S. D. (2021) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780199546756.001.0001 · Cited by 30
Cianconi, P., Hanife, B., Grillo, F., Zhang, K., & Janiri, L. (2021) · Life · doi:10.3390/life11090895 · Cited by 26
A social cichlid fish failed to pass the mark test
Hotta, T., Komiyama, S., & Kohda, M. (2017) · Animal Cognition · doi:10.1007/s10071-017-1146-y · Cited by 27
“Previous studies have shown that relatively large-brained animals have complex and sophisticated cognitive skills (Lefebvre et al. 2004) and are likely to exhibit MSR (Ma et al.”
BackgroundLarger brains spur species diversification in birds
Sayol, F., Lapiedra, O., Ducatez, S., & Sol, D. (2019) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/evo.13811 · Cited by 26
“Birds represent an ideal system for investigating this question because they contain some of the species with the largest brains of all vertebrates, and the evolution of enlarged brains has independently occurred in different lineages (Lefebvre et al. 2004).”
BackgroundSelf-citationDid humans evolve to innovate with a social rather than technical orientation?
von Hippel, W., & Suddendorf, T. (2018) · New Ideas in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.06.002 · Cited by 26
The evolution of quantitative sensitivity
Bryer, M. A. H., Koopman, S. E., Cantlon, J. F., Piantadosi, S. T., MacLean, E. L., Baker, J. M., Beran, M. J., Jones, S. M., Jordan, K. E., Mahamane, S., et al. (2021) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0529 · Cited by 28
Manrique, H. M., & WALKER, M. J. (2023) · Physics of Life Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.005 · Cited by 31
The impact of urbanization on learning ability in an invasive lizard
Kang, F., Goulet, C. T., & Chapple, D. G. (2017) · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx131 · Cited by 25
“…has the benefit of enabling innovative and plastic behavioural responses, yet this benefit comes at a cost in terms of maintaining energetically expensive neural structures or the time needed to evaluate environmental conditions (Lefebvre & Sol, 2004; Niemela et al., 2013; Kotrschal et al., 2015).”
Salas, C. A., Yopak, K. E., Warrington, R. E., Hart, N. S., POTTER, I. C., & Collin, S. P. (2015) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2015.00251 · Cited by 25
van Horik, J. O., & Emery, N. J. (2018) · Behavioural Processes · doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2018.04.002 · Cited by 24
Jacobson, S. L., Puitiza, A., Snyder, R. J., Sheppard, A., & Plotnik, J. M. (2022) · Animal Cognition · doi:10.1007/s10071-021-01576-3 · Cited by 30
Arbour, J. H., & Santana, S. E. (2017) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/evo.13237 · Cited by 23
Individual foraging preferences are linked to innovativeness and personality in the great tit
Serrano‐Davies, E., O’Shea, W., & Quinn, J. L. (2017) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-017-2389-y · Cited by 22
Evolutionary and ecological patterns of scatter‐ and larder‐hoarding behaviours in rodents
Zhang, Y., Yu, F., Yi, X., Zhou, W., Liu, R., Holyoak, M., Cao, L., Zhang, M., Chen, J., Zhang, Z., et al. (2022) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/ele.13992 · Cited by 23
Social Performance Cues Induce Behavioral Flexibility in Humans
Toelch, U., Bruce, M. J., Meeus, M. T. H., & Reader, S. M. (2011) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00160 · Cited by 23
Self-citationFitness Consequences of Innovation in Spotted Hyenas
Johnson-Ulrich, L., Benson‐Amram, S., & Holekamp, K. E. (2019) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00443 · Cited by 23
“Innovation has been strongly linked to brain size across bird, primate, and carnivore species (Reader and Laland, 2002; Lefebvre et al., 2004; Benson-Amram et al., 2016).”
BackgroundOn the evolution of brain size in relation to migratory behaviour in birds
Витальевич, П. В., Sanford, K., & Hahn, T. P. (2007) · Animal Behaviour · doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.005 · Cited by 23
Egg Rejection and Brain Size among Potential Hosts of the Common Cuckoo
Avilés, J. M., & Garamszegi, L. Z. (2007) · Ethology · doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01359.x · Cited by 23
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lefebvre, L., Reader, S. M., & Sol, D.
- Affiliations
- McGill University (CA)
- Venue
- Brain, Behavior and Evolution
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 233-246
- ISSN
- 0006-8977 (ISSN-L)
- 1421-9743
- OpenAlex
- W2112831044
- Cited by
- 666
- References
- 132
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 41 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 35 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 43
- FWCI
- 3.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Brain Behavior and Evolution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Keywords
- behavioral innovation, brain size, cognition, birds, primates, hyperstriatum ventrale, neostriatum, neocortex, striatum, tool use, learning, seasonal adaptation, range expansion, diversification rates, brain evolution, comparative cognition
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Birds, Brain, Biological Evolution, Primates
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