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SUBMITTER: Mugan U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7298009 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200616 1
It is uncontroversial that land animals have more elaborated cognitive abilities than their aquatic counterparts such as fish. Yet there is no apparent a-priori reason for this. A key cognitive faculty is planning. We show that in visually guided predator-prey interactions, planning provides a significant advantage, but only on land. During animal evolution, the water-to-land transition resulted in a massive increase in visual range. Simulations of behavior identify a specific type of terrestria ...[more]