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--- abstract: 'A deduction is produced from three allometric scaling laws, showing cortical surface area scales one-to-one with body surface area as a general but, ex hypothesi, highly consistent principle across Mammalia.' altloc: - http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~markreid/surfaces.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Reid given: Mark honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-05-04 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/22/02 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2202 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/2202/1/surfaces.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'cortical surface area, body surface area, cetacea, mammalia, Jerison' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:55 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: | Changizi, M. (2001). Principles underlying mammalian neocortical scaling. Biological Cybernetics, 84, 207-15. Martin, R. D. (1981). Relative brain size and basal metabolic rate in terrestrial vertebrates. Nature 293, 57-60. Ridgway, S. H. & Brownson, R. H. (1984). Relative brain size and cortical surface areas in odontocetes. Acta Zoolologica Fennica 172, 149-152. Marino, L. A (1998). Comparison of Encephalization between Odontocete Cetaceans and Anthropoid Primates. Brain, Behavior, & Evolution, 51, 230-238. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:43:27 subjects: - bio-evo succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Mammalian Brain Surface Scales One-to-One to Body Surface (a 500 word proof) type: other userid: 757 volume: ~