Developmental Stress, Song-Learning, and Cognition
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Developmental stress, song-learning, and cognition.
The evolution of enhanced cognitive ability has sometimes been attributed to sexual selection. An association between the mating success of males and their cognitive ability could arise either through male-male competition or through female choice. Specifically in the latter case, sexual selection would act more readily if males advertized their cognitive ability through display. Most traits in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu020