The mentality of crows: Convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5703, 2004, Pages 1903-1907

  Emery, Nathan J ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPLEX COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COGNITION; EVOLUTION;

APE; BIRD; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EVOLUTION; FOOD; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; CROWS; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE;

EID: 10344252314     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098410     Document Type: Review

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64. N.J.E. is supported by a Royal Society Research Fellowship. The writing of this review was supported by grants from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grants S16565 and BBS/B/053S4), the Royal Society, and the University of Cambridge. We thank A. Dickinson, S. de Kort, C. Rutte, G. Hunt, and A. Kacelnik for comments on the manuscript