Trial and error in the evolution of cognition

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 35, Issue 1-3, 1995, Pages 215-224

  Beer, Colin G ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive ethology; Epistemology; Evolution; Learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0029616193     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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