Pere Alberch’s Developmental Morphospaces and the Evolution of Cognition

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Biological Theory 3 (4):297-304 (2008)
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In this article we argue for an extension of Pere Alberch’s notion of developmental morphospace into the realm of cognition and introduce the notion of cognitive phenotype as a new tool for the evolutionary and developmental study of cognitive abilities

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10.1162/biot.2008.3.4.297

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