...Javier Lázaro; Moritz Hertel; Scott LaPoint; Martin Wikelski; Matthias Stiehler; Dina K. N. Dechmann ABSTRACT In a rare phenomenon, shrews and a few other species cope with seasonal environments by reducing and regrowing brain size, potentially at the cost of changes in cognitive abilities. Here...

... into a re-examination, conducted with partial correlation analysis, of the maternal energy hypothesis relating to mammalian brain evolution, which suggests links between body size and brain size in neonates and adults, gestation period and basal metabolic rate. Much has been made of the potential problem...