Fig. 1: Phylogenetic tree of the dataset used in this study.
From: Evolution of cortical geometry and its link to function, behaviour and ecology
The dataset covers 90 species (58 primates, 28 rodents, 2 lagomorphs, 1 scandentia, 1 dermoptera), for which 5 binary ecological and behavioural categorical indicator variables were collected (Large group size, diurnality, arboreality, terrestriality and fossoriality, see Supplementary Datas 1a, 2a and 2b). Estimates of the morphology of potential ancestral shapes were computed after iterative pairwise alignment of sister species. The resulting surface models are compared with endocasts (Supplementary Data 1b) obtained from phylogenetically closely related fossil endocasts at the branching points indicated by the letters A-I, highlighting the morphological plausibility of the results and consequently the underlying surface correspondences.
