2004
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.112202.130152
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Evolutionary Biology of Animal Cognition

Abstract: This review focuses on five key evolutionary issues pertaining to animal cognition, defined as the neuronal processes concerned with the acquisition, retention, and use of information. Whereas the use of information, or decision making, has been relatively well examined by students of behavior, evolutionary aspects of other cognitive traits that affect behavior, including perception, learning, memory, and attention, are less well understood. First, there is ample evidence for genetically based individual varia… Show more

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“…In humans, more than half of individual differences in intelligence are attributed to additive genetic variation [42,43]. For other taxa, systematic analyses of cognition are lacking [3][4][5]7]. Our estimates of heritability of performance in a spatial learning task in rose bitterling indicated that approximately one-quarter of variance in learning accuracy was heritable.…”
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confidence: 95%
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“…In humans, more than half of individual differences in intelligence are attributed to additive genetic variation [42,43]. For other taxa, systematic analyses of cognition are lacking [3][4][5]7]. Our estimates of heritability of performance in a spatial learning task in rose bitterling indicated that approximately one-quarter of variance in learning accuracy was heritable.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…DNA was successfully extracted and analysed for a total of 408 embryos. Of these, paternity was assigned with 95% confidence for 364 embryos in CERVUS V. 3.0 (error rate set to 0.01) [28]. In one replicate, only three eggs were recovered and data for this replicate were excluded from the subsequent analysis.…”
Section: (E) Parentage Analysismentioning
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“…The ability to acquire, process, store, and respond to information regarding risk can affect fitness of any organism [51,52]. While it remains controversial whether nonhuman animals, let alone plants, are capable of complex cognition, recent evidence indicates that plants exhibit many of the hallmarks of cognitive traits such as perception (discussed above), learning, and memory.…”
Section: Cognitive Limitationsmentioning
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“…We draw on the literature from perception, neuroscience, ecology and computational science. The benefits of a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates functional questions from biology with mechanistic questions from psychology have been delineated by Dukas (1998Dukas ( , 2004, Chittka and Thomson (2001), Ratcliffe (2009) andShettleworth (2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%