Heritability and the evolution of cognitive traits

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1447-1459

  Croston, R ^a   Branch, C L ^a   Kozlovsky, D Y ^a   Dukas, R ^b   Pravosudov, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptation; brain; cognition; evolution; heritability; natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BRAIN; COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEUROLOGY;

EID: 84951166763     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv088     Document Type: Review

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