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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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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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description | 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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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. |
spellingShingle | Essay 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 |
title | Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition |
title_full | Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition |
title_fullStr | Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition |
title_full_unstemmed | Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition |
title_short | Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition |
title_sort | cetaceans have complex brains for complex cognition |
topic | Essay |
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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