Estimated measurement standard error for the brain and body mass of 629 mammal species

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The standard errors have been estimated based on the datasets published in Boddy et al. 2012a and Boddy et al. 2012b (see references below).

SEs

Format

The data is stored in the form of a 2 x 629 numerical matrix.

Note

For additional information, read SI Appendix, Section H from Mitov et al. 2019.

References

  1. Mitov et al. 2019: Mitov, V., Bartoszek, K., & Stadler, T. (2019). Automatic generation of evolutionary hypotheses using mixed Gaussian phylogenetic models. Proceedings of the National", Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813823116.

  2. Bininda-Emonds et al. 2007: Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K. E., MacPhee, R. D. E., Beck, R. M. D., Grenyer, R., et al. (2007). The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature, 446(7135), 507–512. http://doi.org/10.1038/nature05634.

  3. Boddy et al. 2012a: Boddy, A. M., McGowen, M. R., Sherwood, C. C., Grossman, L. I., Goodman, M., & Wildman, D. E. (2012). Comparative analysis of encephalization in mammals reveals relaxed constraints on anthropoid primate and cetacean brain scaling. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25(5), 981–994. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02491.x

  4. Boddy et al. 2012b: Boddy AM, McGowen MR, Sherwood CC, Grossman LI, Goodman M, Wildman DE (2012) Data from: Comparative analysis of encephalization in mammals reveals relaxed constraints on anthropoid primate and cetacean brain scaling. Dryad Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5kh0b362.