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The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition
The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition
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Marc Bekoff
Marc Bekoff

Marc Bekoff is Professor of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Colin Allen
Colin Allen

Colin Allen is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is coauthor of Species of Mind and coeditor of Nature's Purposes and The Cognitive Animal, all published by the MIT Press.

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Gordon M. Burghardt
Gordon M. Burghardt

Gordon Burghardt is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Psychology and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. He is a coeditor of The Cognitive Animal (MIT Press, 2002), past president of the Animal Behavior Society, and editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1885.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262268028
Publication date:
2002
Book Chapter

18: Environmental Complexity, Signal Detection, and the Evolution of Cognition

By
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Doi:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1885.003.0021
  • Published:
    2002

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