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Healy,S.; Braithwaite, V |
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Cognitive ecology: a field of substance? |
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Journal Article |
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2000 |
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution |
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Trends. Ecol. Evol |
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15 |
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1 |
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22-26 |
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Cognitive ecology; Neuroethology; Cognition; Ecology; Evolution; Orientation mechanisms |
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In 1993, Les Real invented the label 'cognitive ecology'. This label was intended for work that brought cognitive science and behavioural ecology together. Real's article stressed the importance of such an approach to the understanding of behaviour. At the end of a decade in which more interdisciplinary work on behaviour has been seen than for many years, it is time to assess whether cognitive ecology is a label describing an active field. |
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Division of Biological Sciences, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK EH9 3JT |
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0169-5347 |
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Amodio, P.; Boeckle, M.; Schnell, A.K.; Ostojic, L.; Fiorito, G.; Clayton, N.S. |
Title |
Grow Smart and Die Young: Why Did Cephalopods Evolve Intelligence? |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution |
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Trends. Ecol. Evol. |
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Intelligence in large-brained vertebrates might have evolved through independent, yet similar processes based on comparable socioecological pressures and slow life histories. This convergent evolutionary route, however, cannot explain why cephalopods developed large brains and flexible behavioural repertoires: cephalopods have fast life histories and live in simple social environments. Here, we suggest that the loss of the external shell in cephalopods (i) caused a dramatic increase in predatory pressure, which in turn prevented the emergence of slow life histories, and (ii) allowed the exploitation of novel challenging niches, thus favouring the emergence of intelligence. By highlighting convergent and divergent aspects between cephalopods and large-brained vertebrates we illustrate how the evolution of intelligence might not be constrained to a single evolutionary route. |
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doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.10.010 |
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