The dog genome was first sequenced in 2005—the particular animal chosen was a purebred female Boxer named Tasha. In general, the dog genome can be seen as a blueprint for building the dog’s genetic material—all the traits and behaviors that are exhibited by a dog are determined by the ...
immature birds but also of adults that do not have a partner and/or a breeding territory (Heinrich1989; Braun and Bugnyar2012; Loretto et al.2016b). Flocks vary in size: they are largest for roosting (up to > 1000 birds; Engel et al.1992; Wright et al.2003), likely because of ...
Adaptive radiation describes the creation of new species through the opportunistic spread of an old species into new habitats. Over time, adaptations that make the species more suitable for the new habitat are naturally selected, and as those adaptations grow in number and scope the population of ...
female chimpanzees are known to prefer to have sex with different males within the fertile phrase than they prefer outside of this phase—a strategy thought to improve their offspring
The organism-as-crystal view emphasises the weight of general laws of nature in conditioning or even determining the structure of living beings, while the organism-as-artefact view focuses on functions and adaptive traits as the sources of form (see Gould 2012 for a comprehensive review).But, ...
These findings are comparable to those observed in primate species; humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, olive baboons, and long-tailed macaques have all demonstrated successful discrimination of 3-D cubes varying in volume by 20 % (Schmitt, Kröger, Zinner, Call, & Fischer, 2013). Furthermore, ...
339 Emotion 339 Biological Factors in Emotion 340 Cognitive Factors in Emotion 343 Behavioral Factors in Emotion 345 Sociocultural Factors in Emotion 346 Classifying Emotions 347 AP PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY The Full Circle of Emotions The Adaptive Functions of Emotions 349 348 Motivation, Emotion, and ...
(2010) study of animal cognition in the context of behavior and its evolution. Why should we compare dog cognition with the cognition of pigeons, rats, or rhesus monkeys, as we would have to if we were using Mackintosh’s book, or with the behavior of chickadees, voles, and chimpanzees,...
If cognitive traits have biological functions in the same way as other traits of an organism have biological functions, one will be entitled to analyse the mechanisms that realise these processes in the same functional-historical terms. Like any other trait, they will be subject to processes of ...
(2010) study of animal cognition in the context of behavior and its evolution. Why should we compare dog cognition with the cognition of pigeons, rats, or rhesus monkeys, as we would have to if we were using Mackintosh’s book, or with the behavior of chickadees, voles, and chimpanzees,...