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Bigger Brains Come at a Cost Guppies bred for larger brains also had smaller guts and produced fewer offspring. Sophie Bushwick reports Comparisons of different animals have shown that larger brains provide greater intelligence, but they also guzzle more energy and have other consequences. Now scientists have observed the effects of varying brain size within a single species: guppies. The work is in Current Biology. [Alexander Kotrschal et al., Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain] Swedish researchers bred two diffe