Should neuroecologists separate Tinbergen's four questions?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 117, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-96

  Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Domain general cognition; Evo devo; Modular cognition; Tinbergen

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOOD STORAGE; HUMAN; NEUROECOLOGISTS; NEUROLOGIST; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIALIZATION; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; ECOLOGY; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; NEUROLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84938746318     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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