What kind of memory has evolution wrought?: Introductory Article for the Special Issue of Memory: Adaptive memory: The emergence and nature of proximate mechanisms

Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Otgaar, Henry ^a   Howe, Mark L ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive memory; Applications of memory; Evolution; Memory and the law; Proximate mechanisms; Ultimate mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEMORY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84891342663     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.800355     Document Type: Article

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