What is comparable in comparative cognition?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1603, 2012, Pages 2677-2685

  Chittka, Lars ^a   Rossiter, Stephen J ^a   Skorupski, Peter ^a   Fernando, Chrisantha ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Convergent evolution; Homology; Intelligence; Neural circuits

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HOMOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NEUROLOGY; PARALLEL EVOLUTION;

EID: 84865402841     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0215     Document Type: Review

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