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  • Environmental variation has been hypothesized to favour the evolution of large brains capable of adjusting behaviour to changing circumstances. Here, Sayolet al. find that across more than 1200 bird species, species with relatively large brains are indeed associated with more variable habitats.

    • Ferran Sayol
    • Joan Maspons
    • Daniel Sol
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-8

  • The true number of human-driven bird extinctions is likely larger than we think. Here, the authors combine recorded extinctions with estimates from the fossil record to suggest that ~1400 bird species have gone extinct since the Late Pleistocene.

    • Rob Cooke
    • Ferran Sayol
    • Søren Faurby
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-14

  • Islands may impose a distinct set of selective pressures, leading to the repeated evolution of certain traits. Here, Sayol et al. compare brain sizes of more than 1900 bird species in a phylogenetic context, finding a consistent trend for in situ evolution of increased brain size in island birds.

    • Ferran Sayol
    • Philip A. Downing
    • Daniel Sol
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-7

  • The drivers of cognitive variation remain elusive. In this Perspective, Wooster et al. propose the predatory intelligence hypothesis, positing that the complex interactions between predator and prey promote cognitive variation on individual, developmental and evolutionary levels.

    • Eamonn I. F. Wooster
    • Martin J. Whiting
    • Benjamin J. Ashton
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Biodiversity
    P: 1-9

  • Traits that facilitate adaptive responses to novel environments may facilitate global radiations. Here, the authors describe diversification dynamics of crows, finding that their global radiation coincides with high rates of phenotypic and climatic niche evolution.

    • Joan Garcia-Porta
    • Daniel Sol
    • Carlos A. Botero
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-11

  • Bird species with a higher propensity towards innovative behaviours are at a lower risk of global extinction and are more likely to have increasing or stable populations than less innovative birds

    • Simon Ducatez
    • Daniel Sol
    • Louis Lefebvre
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 4, P: 788-793