Brain and Intelligence in Vertebrates |
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Contents
The comparative approach to intelligence | 1 |
Introduction Assessment of intelligence in animals Classification | 24 |
Fish | 44 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Brain and Intelligence in Vertebrates Oxford science publications |
| Author | Euan M. Macphail |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1982 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Jan 14, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0198545509, 9780198545507 |
| Length | 423 pages |
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