Selected emergence in the evolution of behavior and cognition.

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2018.04.019

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Selected emergence in the evolution of behavior and cognition.

Behavioural processes - 1 Apr 2019

Barrett H Clark

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In the evolution of cognition and behavior, a recurrent question concerns the degree to which any given aspect of the phenotype has been "selected for" or "specified," as opposed to arising as a byproduct of some other process. In some sense this is the key question for evolutionary theories of development that seek to connect ultimate evolutionary accounts to proximate developmental accounts of ontogeny. A...

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PMID: 29733862
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2018.04.019

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