A General Model for the Adaptive Function of Self-Knowledge in Animals and Humans

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-86

  Parker, Sue Taylor ^a  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SELF CONCEPT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SELF CONCEPT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031087874     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.1996.0271     Document Type: Article

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