The evolution of intelligence: Adaptive specializations versus general process

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 341-364

  Macphail, Euan M ^a   Bolhuis, Johan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological constraints; Corvids; Ecology; Food storing birds; Hippocampal size; Parids; Spatial learning; Spatial memory; Spatial module

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; COGNITION; ECOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE AVERSION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MEMORY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; PARIDAE;

EID: 0034841508     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S146479310100570X     Document Type: Review

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