Paul R. Manger

Research interests

Publications

• The evolution of mammalian brain size

  Science Advances · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe2101

• Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected

  Brain Behavior and Evolution · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1159/000452856

• Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies

  Current Biology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.046

• Mammalian Brains Are Made of These: A Dataset of the Numbers and Densities of Neuronal and Nonneuronal Cells in the Brain of Glires, Primates, Scandentia, Eulipotyphlans, Afrotherians and Artiodactyls, and Their Relationship with Body Mass

  Brain Behavior and Evolution · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1159/000437413

• The elephant brain in numbers

  Frontiers in Neuroanatomy · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2014.00046

• Brain scaling in mammalian evolution as a consequence of concerted and mosaic changes in numbers of neurons and average neuronal cell size

  Frontiers in Neuroanatomy · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2014.00077

• In contrast to many other mammals, cetaceans have relatively small hippocampi that appear to lack adult neurogenesis

  Brain Structure and Function · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-013-0660-1

• An examination of cetacean brain structure with a novel hypothesis correlating thermogenesis to the evolution of a big brain

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s1464793106007019

• Specializations of the granular prefrontal cortex of primates: Implications for cognitive processing

  The Anatomical Record Part A Discoveries in Molecular Cellular and Evolutionary Biology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20278

• Organization of somatosensory cortex in monotremes: In search of the prototypical plan

  The Journal of Comparative Neurology · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.903510206

Current projects

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