Subjects “...Cognition in animals....”

Subjects “...Cognition in animals....”

Subjects “...Cognition in animals....”
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Table of Contents “...Cognitive mate choice / Michael J. Ryan, Karin L. Akre, & Mark Kirkpatrick. ...”

Table of Contents “...-- Do animals have consciousness? -- Comparing vertebrate brains -- Are humans unique? ...”

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Table of Contents “...Doeller, and Chris M. Bird -- Animals as natural geometers / Giorgio Vallortigara -- Is cognitive modularity necessary in an evolutionary account of development? ...”
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Table of Contents “...-- Part 1: Our place in nature -- Part 2: Survival and behavior -- Part 3: Microbial life -- Part 4: The transition to complexity -- Part 5: ...And then animals invented neurons -- Part 6: Metazoan bread crumbs in the ocean -- Part 7: The vertebrates arrive -- Part 8: Ladders and trees in the vertebrate brain -- Part 9: The beginning of cognition -- Part 10: Surviving (and thriving) by thinking -- Part 11: Cognitive hardwire -- Part 12: Subjectivity -- Part 13: Consciousness through the looking glass of memory -- Part 14: The shallows -- Part 15: Emotional subjectivity -- Epilogue: Can we survive our self-conscious selves? ...”

Table of Contents “...[et al.] -- Neurobiology of perception of illusory contours in animals / Andreas Nieder -- How jumping spiders see the world / Duane P. ...”

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Table of Contents “....; Limitations of early comparative studiesComparative approach to primate ecology and behaviour; Using phylogenies in comparative analysis; The comparative approach reviewed; Experimental studies of adaptation; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 3: Economic Decisions and the Individual; The economics of carrying a load; The economics of prey choice; Sampling and information; The risk of starvation; Environmental variability, body reserves and food storing; Food storing birds: from behavioural ecology to neuroscience; The evolution of cognition; Feeding and danger: a trade-off; Social learning.; Optimality models and behaviour: an overviewSummary; Further reading; CHAPTER 4: Predators versus Prey: Evolutionary Arms Races; Red Queen evolution; Predators versus cryptic prey; Enhancing camouflage; Warning colouration: aposematism; Mimicry; Trade-offs in prey defences; Cuckoos versus hosts; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 5: Competing for Resources; The Hawk-Dove game; Competition by exploitation: the ideal free distribution; Competition by resource defence: the despotic distribution; The ideal free distribution with unequal competitors; The economics of resource defence.; Producers and scroungersAlternative mating strategies and tactics; ESS thinking; Animal personalities; Summary; Further reading; CHAPTER 6: Living in Groups; How grouping can reduce predation; How grouping can improve foraging; Evolution of group living: shoaling in guppies; Group size and skew; Group decision making; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 7: Sexual Selection, Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict; Males and females; Parental investment and sexual competition; Why do females invest more in offspring care than do males?...”
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