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Smith, W.J. |
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Cognitive Implications of an Information-sharing Model of Animal Communication |
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Animal Cognition in Nature |
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Summary In social communication, one animal signals and another responds. Several cognitive steps are involved as the second animal selects its responses; these steps can be described as follows in terms of an informational model. First, the responding individual must evaluate the information made available by the signaling on the basis of other information, available from sources contextual to the signal. Second, the respondent must fit all of the relevant information into patterns generated from recall of past events (conscious recall is not generally required; pattern fitting is a fundamental skill). Third, conditional predictions must be made; and fourth, the individual must test and modify any of these predictions for which significant consequences exist. Many vertebrate animals appear to respond to signaling with considerable flexibility. Communicative events are thus complex but are by no means intractable. Indeed, communication provides us with excellent opportunities to investigate animal cognition. |
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Russell P. Balda; Irene M. Pepperberg; Alan C. Kamil |
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Beer, C.G. |
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Varying Views of Animal and Human Cognition |
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1998 |
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Animal Cognition in Nature |
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Summary In this chapter I want to stand back from the splendid empirical work on animal cognitive capacities that is the focus of this book, and look at the broader context of cognitive concerns within which the work can be viewed. Indeed even the term `cognitive ethology' currently connotes and denotes more than is represented here, as other collections of articles, such as and , exemplify. I include the current descendants of behavioristic learning theory, evolutionary epistemology, evolutionary psychology and the recent comparative turn that has been taken in cognitive science. These several approaches, despite their considerable overlap, often appear independent and even ignorant of one another. Like the proverbial blind men feeling the hide of an elephant, they touch hands from time to time, yet collectively have only a piecemeal and distributed understanding of the shape of the whole. Although each approach may indeed need the space to work out its own conceptual and methodological preoccupations without confounding interference from other views, a utopian spirit envisages an ultimate coming together, a more comprehensive realization of the synthetic approach to animal cognition that is this book's theme. |
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Russell P. Balda; Irene M. Pepperberg; Alan C. Kamil |
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Gilmanshin, R.; Callender, R.H.; Dyer, R.B. |
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The core of apomyoglobin E-form folds at the diffusion limit |
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1998 |
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Nature Structural Biology |
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Nat Struct Biol |
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5 |
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5 |
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363-365 |
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Animals; Apoproteins/*chemistry; Diffusion; Horses; Myoglobin/*chemistry; *Protein Folding; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; Temperature |
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The E-form of apomyoglobin has been characterized using infrared and fluorescence spectroscopies, revealing a compact core with native like contacts, most probably consisting of 15-20 residues of the A, G and H helices of apomyoglobin. Fast temperature-jump, time-resolved infrared measurements reveal that the core is formed within 96 micros at 46 degrees C, close to the diffusion limit for loop formation. Remarkably, the folding pathway of the E-form is such that the formation of a limited number of native-like contacts is not rate limiting, or that the contacts form on the same time scale expected for diffusion controlled loop formation. |
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Kamil, A.C. |
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On the Proper Definition of Cognitive Ethology |
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1998 |
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Animal Cognition in Nature |
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Summary The last 20-30 years have seen two `scientific revolutions' in the study of animal behavior: the cognitive revolution that originated in psychology, and the Darwinian, behavioral ecology revolution that originated in biology. Among psychologists, the cognitive revolution has had enormous impact. Similarly, among biologists, the Darwinian revolution has had enormous impact. The major theme of this chapter is that these two scientific research programs need to be combined into a single approach, simultaneously cognitive and Darwinian, and that this single approach is most appropriately called cognitive ethology. |
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Russell P. Balda; Irene M. Pepperberg; Alan C. Kamil |
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Barton, N. |
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Evolutionary biology: The geometry of adaptation |
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1998 |
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Nature |
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Nature |
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395 |
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6704 |
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751-752 |
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Sugiyama Y |
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Tool use by wild chimpanzees |
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1994 |
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Nature |
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Nature |
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376 |
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Novacek, M.J. |
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Mammalian phylogeny: shaking the tree |
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1992 |
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Nature |
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356 |
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121-125 |
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Recent palaeontological discoveries and the correspondence between molecular and morphological results provide fresh insight on the deep structure of mammalian phylogeny. This new wave of research, however, has yet to resolve some important issues. |
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American Museum of Natural History, New York 10024 |
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Nowak, M.A.; Sigmund, K. |
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Tit for tat in heterogeneous populations |
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1992 |
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Nature |
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Reeve, H.K. |
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Queen activation of lazy workers in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat |
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1992 |
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Nature |
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Marean, C.W.; Gifford-Gonzalez, D. |
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Late Quaternary extinct ungulates of East Africa and palaeoenvironmental implications |
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1991 |
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Nature |
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UNGULATE communities of two East African savannas, the Serengeti and Athi-Kapiti Plains, are dominated by wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) supplemented by zebra (Equus burchelli), topi (Damaliscus lunatus), hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), buffalo (Syncerus caffer) eland (Taurotragus oryx) and gazelles (Gazella grand and G. thomsoni)1-3. Before this research, little was known of East African large mammal communities in the Late Pleistocene and early to middle Holocene. We document an extinct impala-sized alcelaphine antelope that is numerically dominant in Late Pleistocene archaeofaunal assemblages from the Athi-Kapiti Plains. The extinct giant buffalo Pelorovis antiquus is present, and a number of arid-adapted regionally extinct species are common. The small alcelaphine is rare in northern Tanzania, but regionally extinct arid-adapted species are present in Late Pleistocene deposits. These data indicate that as recently as 12,000 years ago, the large mammal community structure of East African savannas was very different and dry grasslands and arid-adapted ungulates expanded at least as far south as northern Tanzania during the Last Glacial Maximum. |
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