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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Evolutionary dynamics of recent selection on cognitive abilities.

Sara E Miller, Andrew W Legan, Michael T Henshaw, Katherine L Ostevik, Kieran Samuk, Floria M K Uy, Michael J Sheehan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. What could evolve in the evolution of memory?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  2. Living on the edge: the evolution of spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. Linking individual fitness to the evolution of cognition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  4. Selection shapes diverse animal minds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  5. Tolerance and efficient metabolization of extremely high ethanol concentrations by a social wasp.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  20. A vertebrate adaptive radiation is assembled from an ancient and disjunct spatiotemporal landscape.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sara E MillerDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-9441-0101
Andrew W LeganDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Michael T HenshawDepartment of Biology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401.
Katherine L OstevikDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
Kieran SamukDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.ORCID 0000-0003-0396-465X
Floria M K UyDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Michael J SheehanDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; msheehan@cornell.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3949-7873
Cornell University · USDuke University · USGrand Valley State University · USUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

Encoding Knowledge in the GenomeDP2GM128202 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI SHEEHAN, MICHAEL J · 2017 to 2017
$2.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM128202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive abilities can vary dramatically among species. The relative importance of social and ecological challenges in shaping cognitive evolution has been the subject of a long-running and recently renewed debate, but little work has sought to understand the selective dynamics underlying the evolution of cognitive abilities. Here, we investigate recent selection related to cognition in the paper wasp

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionAnimalsCognitionGenome, InsectRecognition, PsychologySelection, GeneticWaspscognitionevolutionary dynamicsselective sweepssocial evolutionwasps

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PMID31980529
PMCPMC7022144
OpenAlexW3001276299

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