The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1567, 2011, Pages 1017-1027

  Reader, Simon M ^a   Hager, Yfke ^b   Laland, Kevin N ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural innovation; Brain evolution; Cognitive evolution; Culture; Social learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COEVOLUTION; COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PRIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOOL USE;

HOMINIDAE; MACACA; PAPIO; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; CULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959518937     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0342     Document Type: Article

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