Visual self-recognition is often controversially cited as an indicator of self-awareness and
assessed with the mirror-mark test. Great apes and humans, unlike small apes and …

I sketch briefly some of the more influential theories concerned with the moral status of
nonhuman animals, highlighting their biological/physiological aspects. I then survey the …

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the
principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new …

Are animals conscious? If so, when did consciousness evolve? We address these long-
standing and essential questions using a modern neuroscientific approach that draws on …

How did nervous systems and brains, on the one hand, and cognitive functions and
intelligence, in short ''mind''on the other evolve, and how are these two processes related …

The comparative method grants epistemic access to the biological past. Comparing lineages
provides empirical traction on both hypotheses about particular lineages and models of trait …

Despite decades of research, some of the most basic issues concerning the extraordinarily
complex brains and behavior of birds and mammals, such as the factors responsible for the …

Recent research suggests that domesticated species–due to artificial selection by humans
for specific, preferred behavioral traits–are better than wild animals at responding to visual …

Opposing forces influence assortative mating so that one seeks a similar mate while at the
same time avoiding inbreeding with close relatives. Thus, mate choice may be a balancing …

European Union (EU) studies is known as a fragmented and interdisciplinary field. Drawing
on bibliometric methods, this article presents a novel approach to examining the alleged …