Measuring variation in cognition can be done, but it requires hard empirical work: A comment on Rowe and Healy

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1296-1297

  Kolm, Niclas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84913525651     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru127     Document Type: Note

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