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Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

A group of eminent cetacean researchers respond to headlines charging that dolphins might be "flippin' idiots". They examine behavioural, anatomical and evolutionary data to conclude that the large brain of cetaceans evolved to support complex cognitive abilities.

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Autores principales: Marino, Lori, Connor, Richard C, Fordyce, R. Ewan, Herman, Louis M, Hof, Patrick R, Lefebvre, Louis, Lusseau, David, McCowan, Brenda, Nimchinsky, Esther A, Pack, Adam A, Rendell, Luke, Reidenberg, Joy S, Reiss, Diana, Uhen, Mark D, Van der Gucht, Estel, Whitehead, Hal
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17503965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139
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author Marino, Lori
Connor, Richard C
Fordyce, R. Ewan
Herman, Louis M
Hof, Patrick R
Lefebvre, Louis
Lusseau, David
McCowan, Brenda
Nimchinsky, Esther A
Pack, Adam A
Rendell, Luke
Reidenberg, Joy S
Reiss, Diana
Uhen, Mark D
Van der Gucht, Estel
Whitehead, Hal
author_facet Marino, Lori
Connor, Richard C
Fordyce, R. Ewan
Herman, Louis M
Hof, Patrick R
Lefebvre, Louis
Lusseau, David
McCowan, Brenda
Nimchinsky, Esther A
Pack, Adam A
Rendell, Luke
Reidenberg, Joy S
Reiss, Diana
Uhen, Mark D
Van der Gucht, Estel
Whitehead, Hal
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spelling pubmed-18680712007-05-12 Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition Marino, Lori Connor, Richard C Fordyce, R. Ewan Herman, Louis M Hof, Patrick R Lefebvre, Louis Lusseau, David McCowan, Brenda Nimchinsky, Esther A Pack, Adam A Rendell, Luke Reidenberg, Joy S Reiss, Diana Uhen, Mark D Van der Gucht, Estel Whitehead, Hal PLoS Biol Essay A group of eminent cetacean researchers respond to headlines charging that dolphins might be "flippin' idiots". They examine behavioural, anatomical and evolutionary data to conclude that the large brain of cetaceans evolved to support complex cognitive abilities. Public Library of Science 2007-05 2007-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC1868071/ /pubmed/17503965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139 Text en © 2007 Marino et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Marino, Lori
Connor, Richard C
Fordyce, R. Ewan
Herman, Louis M
Hof, Patrick R
Lefebvre, Louis
Lusseau, David
McCowan, Brenda
Nimchinsky, Esther A
Pack, Adam A
Rendell, Luke
Reidenberg, Joy S
Reiss, Diana
Uhen, Mark D
Van der Gucht, Estel
Whitehead, Hal
Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition
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title_short Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17503965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139
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