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ZORA Publication List

Publications

• van Woerden, J T; van Schaik, C P; Isler, K (2014). Brief Communication: Seasonality of diet composition is related to brain size in New World Monkeys. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 154(4):628-632.
• Isler, Karin; van Schaik, Carel P (2014). How humans evolved large brains: Comparative evidence. Evolutionary Anthropology, 23(2):65-75.
• Pontzer, H; Raichlen, D A; Gordon, A D; Schroepfer-Walker, K K; Hare, B; O'Neill, M C; Muldoon, K M; Dunsworth, H M; Wood, B M; Isler, K; Burkart, J; Irwin, M; Shumaker, R W; Lonsdorf, E V; Ross, S R (2014). Primate energy expenditure and life history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(4):1433-1437.
• Cavegn, Nicole; van Dijk, R Maarten; Menges, Dominik; Brettschneider, Helene; Phalanndwa, Mashudu; Chimimba, Christian T; Isler, Karin; Lipp, Hans-Peter; Slomianka, Lutz; Amrein, Irmgard (2013). Habitat-specific shaping of proliferation and neuronal differentiation in adult hippocampal neurogenesis of wild rodents. Frontiers in Neuroscience:7:59.
• Isler, Karin (2013). Brain size evolution: How fish pay for being smart. Current Biology, 23(2):R63-R65.
• Isler, Karin. Explaining brain size evolution: a comparative approach. 2013, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.
• van Schaik, Carel P; Damerius, Laura; Isler, Karin (2013). Wild orangutan males plan and communicate their travel direction one day in advance. PLoS ONE, 8(9):e74896.
• Grueter, Cyril C; Bissonnette, Annie; Isler, Karin; van Schaik, Carel P (2013). Grooming and group cohesion in primates: implications for the evolution of language. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(1):61-68.
• van Schaik, C P; Isler, K (2012). Life-history evolution in primates. In: Mitani, J C; Call, J; Kappeler, P M; Palombit, R A; Silk, J B. The evolution of primate societies. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 220-244.
• Schuppli, Caroline; Isler, Karin; van Schaik, Carel P (2012). How to explain the unusually late age at skill competence among humans. Journal of Human Evolution, 63(6):843-850.
• Isler, Karin; van Schaik, Carel P (2012). How Our Ancestors Broke through the Gray Ceiling: Comparative Evidence for Cooperative Breeding in Early Homo. Current Anthropology, 53(S6):S453-S465.
• Yao, Lu; Brown, J P; Stampanoni, Marco; Marone, Federica; Isler, K; Martin, Robert D (2012). Evolutionary change in the brain size of bats. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 80(1):15-25.
• Prasad, V R; Isler, K (2012). Assessment of phylogenetic structure in genome size - gene content correlations. Genome (Génome), 55(5):391-395.
• van Schaik, C P; Isler, K; Burkart, J M (2012). Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(5):277-284.
• Isler, K; van Schaik, C P (2012). Allomaternal care, life history and brain size evolution in mammals. Journal of Human Evolution, 63(1):52-63.
• Myatt, J P; Crompton, R H; Payne-Davis, R C; Vereecke, E E; Isler, K; Savage, R; D'Août, K; Günther, M M; Thorpe, S K S (2012). Functional adaptations in the forelimb muscles of non-human great apes. Journal of Anatomy, 220:13-28.
• van Woerden, J T; Willems, E P; van Schaik, C P; Isler, K (2012). Large brains buffer energetic effects of seasonal habitats in catarrhine primates. Evolution, 66(1):191-199.
• Navarrete, A; van Schaik, C P; Isler, K (2011). Energetics and the evolution of human brain size. Nature, 480(7375):91-93.
• Amrein, I; Isler, K; Lipp, H P (2011). Comparing adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mammalian species and orders: influence of chronological age and life stage. European Journal of Neuroscience, 34(6):978-987.
• Isler, K (2011). Energetic trade-offs between brain size and offspring production: Marsupials confirm a general mammalian pattern. BioEssays, 33(3):173-179.

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