creators_name: Reid, Mark type: other datestamp: 2002-05-04 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:55 metadata_visibility: show title: Mammalian Brain Surface Scales One-to-One to Body Surface (a 500 word proof) ispublished: inpress subjects: bio-evo full_text_status: public keywords: cortical surface area, body surface area, cetacea, mammalia, Jerison abstract: A deduction is produced from three allometric scaling laws, showing cortical surface area scales one-to-one with body surface area as a general but, ex hypothesi, highly consistent principle across Mammalia. date: 2002 date_type: published refereed: TRUE referencetext: Changizi, M. (2001). Principles underlying mammalian neocortical scaling. Biological Cybernetics, 84, 207-15. Martin, R. D. (1981). Relative brain size and basal metabolic rate in terrestrial vertebrates. Nature 293, 57-60. Ridgway, S. H. & Brownson, R. H. (1984). Relative brain size and cortical surface areas in odontocetes. Acta Zoolologica Fennica 172, 149-152. Marino, L. A (1998). Comparison of Encephalization between Odontocete Cetaceans and Anthropoid Primates. Brain, Behavior, & Evolution, 51, 230-238. citation: Reid, Mark (2002) Mammalian Brain Surface Scales One-to-One to Body Surface (a 500 word proof). (In Press) document_url: http://cogprints.org/2202/1/surfaces.html