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Publications

• Pontzer, H., Raichlen, D. A., Gordon, A. D., Schroepfer-Walker, K. K., Hare, B., O’Neill, M. C., Muldoon, K. M., Dunsworth, H. M., Wood, B. M., Isler, K., Burkart, J., Irwin, M., Shumaker, R. W., Lonsdorf, E. V., & Ross, S. R. (2014). Primate energy expenditure and life history Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 1433–1437. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316940111
• Isler, K., & van Schaik, C. P. (2014). How humans evolved large brains: Comparative evidence Evolutionary Anthropology, 23, 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21403
• van Woerden, J. T., van Schaik, C. P., & Isler, K. (2014). Brief Communication: Seasonality of diet composition is related to brain size in New World Monkeys American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 154, 628–632. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22546
• Grueter, C. C., Bissonnette, A., Isler, K., & van Schaik, C. P. (2013). Grooming and group cohesion in primates: implications for the evolution of language Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.09.004
• Isler, K. (2013). Brain size evolution: How fish pay for being smart Current Biology, 23, R63–R65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.042
• Cavegn, N., van Dijk, R. M., Menges, D., Brettschneider, H., Phalanndwa, M., Chimimba, C. T., Isler, K., Lipp, H.-P., Slomianka, L., & Amrein, I. (2013). Habitat-specific shaping of proliferation and neuronal differentiation in adult hippocampal neurogenesis of wild rodents Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:59. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00059
• van Schaik, C. P., Damerius, L., & Isler, K. (2013). Wild orangutan males plan and communicate their travel direction one day in advance PLoS ONE, 8, e74896. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074896
• Isler, K. (2013). Explaining brain size evolution: a comparative approach (Habilitation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-88255
• Yao, L., Brown, J. P., Stampanoni, M., Marone, F., Isler, K., & Martin, R. D. (2012). Evolutionary change in the brain size of bats Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 80, 15–25. https://doi.org/10.1159/000338324
• Schuppli, C., Isler, K., & van Schaik, C. P. (2012). How to explain the unusually late age at skill competence among humans Journal of Human Evolution, 63, 843–850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.08.009
• van Woerden, J. T., Willems, E. P., van Schaik, C. P., & Isler, K. (2012). Large brains buffer energetic effects of seasonal habitats in catarrhine primates Evolution, 66, 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01434.x
• van Schaik, C. P., Isler, K., & Burkart, J. M. (2012). Explaining brain size variation: from social to cultural brain Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 277–284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.004
• Isler, K., & van Schaik, C. P. (2012). How Our Ancestors Broke through the Gray Ceiling: Comparative Evidence for Cooperative Breeding in Early Homo Current Anthropology, 53, S453–S465. https://doi.org/10.1086/667623
• Myatt, J. P., Crompton, R. H., Payne-Davis, R. C., Vereecke, E. E., Isler, K., Savage, R., D’Août, K., Günther, M. M., & Thorpe, S. K. S. (2012). Functional adaptations in the forelimb muscles of non-human great apes Journal of Anatomy, 220, 13–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2011.01443.x
• Isler, K., & van Schaik, C. P. (2012). Allomaternal care, life history and brain size evolution in mammals Journal of Human Evolution, 63, 52–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.03.009
• van Schaik, C. P., & Isler, K. (2012). Life-history evolution in primates In J. C. Mitani, J. Call, P. M. Kappeler, R. A. Palombit, & J. B. Silk (Eds.), The evolution of primate societies (pp. 220–244). The University of Chicago Press.
• Prasad, V. R., & Isler, K. (2012). Assessment of phylogenetic structure in genome size - gene content correlations Genome (Génome), 55, 391–395. https://doi.org/10.1139/g2012-019
• Amrein, I., Isler, K., & Lipp, H. P. (2011). Comparing adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mammalian species and orders: influence of chronological age and life stage European Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 978–987. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07804.x
• Navarrete, A., van Schaik, C. P., & Isler, K. (2011). Energetics and the evolution of human brain size Nature, 480, 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10629
• Isler, K. (2011). Energetic trade-offs between brain size and offspring production: Marsupials confirm a general mammalian pattern BioEssays, 33, 173–179. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201000123

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