A manuscript presenting the results of analysis of the relationship between brain size and vulnerability to extinction in mammals was accepted today in Evolution! This was a collaborative project with Manuela González-Suárez now at University of Reading in the UK, and Carles Vilà, and Eloy Revilla from the Estación Biológica de Doñana in Seville, Spain. We used phylogenetic path analysis to look at the direct and indirect relationships between brain size, body size, life history traits, population density and vulnerability to extinction.
Alejandro Gonzalez