Susanne Shultz

Research interests

Publications

• Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2017 · 10.1098/rstb.2016.0244

• A synthesis of the theories and concepts of early human evolution

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2015 · 10.1098/rstb.2014.0064

• East African climate pulses and early human evolution

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2014 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.012

• Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1307903110

• Hominin cognitive evolution: identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2012 · 10.1098/rstb.2012.0115

• Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates

  Nature · 2011 · 10.1038/nature10601

• Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.1005246107

• Social bonds in birds are associated with brain size and contingent on the correlated evolution of life-history and increased parental investment

  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01427.x

• Bondedness and sociality

  Behaviour · 2010 · 10.1163/000579510x501151

• Evolution in the Social Brain

  Science · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1145463

• Understanding primate brain evolution

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · 10.1098/rstb.2006.2001

• The evolution of the social brain: anthropoid primates contrast with other vertebrates

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · 10.1098/rspb.2007.0693

• EVIDENCE FOR COEVOLUTION OF SOCIALITY AND RELATIVE BRAIN SIZE IN THREE ORDERS OF MAMMALS

  Evolution · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00229.x

• Toxicity of diclofenac to Gyps vultures

  Biology Letters · 2006 · 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0425

• Both social and ecological factors predict ungulate brain size

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005 · 10.1098/rspb.2005.3283

• Brain size and resource specialization predict long-term population trends in British birds

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005 · 10.1098/rspb.2005.3250

• Diclofenac poisoning is widespread in declining vulture populations across the Indian subcontinent

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2004 · 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0223

• Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of vulture population declines across the Indian subcontinent

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00954.x

• A community–level evaluation of the impact of prey behavioural and ecological characteristics on predator diet composition

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2004 · 10.1098/rspb.2003.2626

Current projects

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