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Putting meat on the bones: The necessity of empirical tests of hypotheses about cognitive evolution.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

P. Thomas Schoenemann
P. Thomas Schoenemann
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 ptschoen@sas.upenn.edu http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ptschoen/
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Abstract

Reconstructing the evolution of cognition requires maximal extraction of information from very sparse data. The role that archaeology plays in this process is important, but strong empirical tests of plausible hypotheses are absolutely critical. Quantitative measures of symmetry must be devised, a much deeper understanding of nonhuman primate spatial cognition is needed, and a better understanding of brain/behavior relationships across species is necessary to properly ground these hypotheses.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , June 2002 , pp. 416 - 417
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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