Differences Teach Us More Than Similarities : The Need for Evolutionary Thinking in Comparative Cognition
(2024) In Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews 19. p.49-53- Abstract
A persistent anthropocentric school of thought prevents comparative cognition from truly joining the evolutionary sciences, which often view “cognition” as an alien subject to the study of life. In this article, I argue that cognition is indeed inherent to all life and that we could study the evolution of cognitive skills like any other species-specific trait if we stop elevating convergence over differences, adopt an inclusive working definition of cognition, and choose new model organisms with a strong focus on phylogeny.
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- Reber, Stephan A. LU
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- publishing date
- 2024
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- animal cognition, cognitive evolution, embodied cognition, neuron number, phylogeny
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- Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews
- volume
- 19
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- Comparative Cognition Society
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- scopus:85193023125
- ISSN
- 1911-4745
- DOI
- 10.3819/CCBR.2024.190006
- language
- English
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- yes
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