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An Exploration of the Social Brain Hypothesis in Insects

The “social brain hypothesis” posits that the cognitive demands of sociality have driven the evolution of substantially enlarged brains in primates and some other mammals. Whether such reasoning can apply to all social animals is an open question. Here we examine the evolutionary relationships betwe...

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Autores principales: Lihoreau, Mathieu, Latty, Tanya, Chittka, Lars
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23205013
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2012.00442