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Alexander Leonhard

Aarhus UniversityORCID 0000-0002-7543-4888Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:ecology & biodiversity· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyiSciencePeer-reviewedJul 1, 2026

Ecological not social factors explain brain size in cephalopods

Kiran Basava, Theiss Bendixen, Alexander Leonhard…·Michael Muthukrishna

The paper investigates factors influencing brain size in cephalopods, finding ecological factors, not social ones, are more strongly associated with larger brain sizes.

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non-human primatestatistical model

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintApr 29, 2024

A phylogeny of extant coleoid cephalopods with brain data

Kiran Basava, Theiss Bendixen, Alexander Leonhard…·Michael Muthukrishna

The paper constructs a composite phylogenetic tree of extant coleoid cephalopods using existing phylogenetic data and brain measurements to support future studies on brain evolution.

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