Journal article
Heritability and the evolution of cognitive traits
Abstract
A critical question in the study of the evolution of cognition and the brain concerns the extent to which variation in cognitive processes and associated neural mechanisms is adaptive and shaped by natural selection. In order to be available to selection, cognitive traits and their neural architecture must show heritable variation within a population, yet heritability of cognitive and neural traits is not often investigated in the field of …
Authors
Croston R; Branch CL; Kozlovsky DY; Dukas R; Pravosudov VV
Journal
Behavioral Ecology, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 1447–1459
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
2015
DOI
10.1093/beheco/arv088
ISSN
1045-2249