Comparative tests of primate cognition: Different scaling methods produce different results

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 44-52

  Deaner, Robert O ^a   Nunn, Charles L ^a   Van Schaik, Carel P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive evolution; Comparative methods; Primates; Scaling; Social strategizing; Spatiotemporal mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0034090408     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006641     Document Type: Article

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