Whatever you want: Inconsistent results are the rule, not the exception, in the study of primate brain evolution.

ABSTRACT: Primate brains differ in size and architecture. Hypotheses to explain this variation are numerous and many tests have been carried out. However, after body size has been accounted for there is little left to explain. The proposed explanatory variables for the residual variation are many and covary, both with each other and with body size. Further, the data sets used in analyses have been small, especially in light of the many proposed predictors. Here we report the complete list of models that results from exhaustively combining six commonly used predictors of brain and neocortex size. This provides an overview of how the output from standard statistical analyses changes when the inclusion of different predictors is altered. By using both the most commonly tested brain data set and the inc

SUBMITTER: Wartel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6645455 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature