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Social complexity affects cognitive abilities but not brain structure in a Poeciliid fish.
Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Social complexity affects cognitive abilities but not brain structure in a Poeciliid fish.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Some cognitive abilities are suggested to be the result of a complex social life, allowing individuals to achieve higher fitness through advanced strategies. However, most evidence is correlative. Here, we provide an experimental investigation of how group size and composition affect brain and cognitive development in the guppy (
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