• Media type: E-Book; Thesis
  • Title: Cognition in the wild : individual differences in cognitive abilities and their link with fitness in a wild primate, the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
  • Contributor: Hübner, Franziska [VerfasserIn]; Fichtel, Claudia, [AkademischeR BetreuerIn]; Fichtel, Claudia [AkademischeR BetreuerIn]; Penke, Lars [AkademischeR BetreuerIn]
  • imprint: Göttingen, 2020
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource; Illustrationen, Diagramme
  • Language: English
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  • Keywords: Hochschulschrift
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  • University thesis: Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2020
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  • Description: Cognition, the process by which animals acquire, process, store and use information from their environment, plays a major role in various behaviours across all aspects of an individuals’ life. However, despite this overall importance of cognitive abilities, we still know little about how cognitive traits evolved. In the past, research on cognitive evolution focussed on comparing different species in their cognitive abilities and linked variation in cognition to inter-specific differences in ecological and social conditions. This comparative approach helps to understand when in evolutionary ...
  • Access State: Open Access