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The quick are the dead: pheasants that are slow to reverse a learned association survive for longer in the wild

Cognitive abilities probably evolve through natural selection if they provide individuals with fitness benefits. A growing number of studies demonstrate a positive relationship between performance in psychometric tasks and (proxy) measures of fitness. We assayed the performance of 154 common pheasan...

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Autores principales: Madden, Joah R., Langley, Ellis J. G., Whiteside, Mark A., Beardsworth, Christine E., van Horik, Jayden O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6107567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30104439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0297