Shell Loss in Cephalopods: Trigger for, or By-Product of, the Evolution of Intelligence? A Reply to Mollo et al

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: pa393@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE).
⁴ Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy.

Comment

Piero Amodio et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Aug.

. 2019 Aug;34(8):690-692.

doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.05.005. Epub 2019 Jun 4.

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: pa393@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE).
⁴ Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy.

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Keywords: cephalopods; evolution; intelligence; predation; shell.

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