Abstract
Fungus-Growing Ants: Models for the Integrative Analysis of Cognition and Brain Evolution.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Learning and Memory, a section of the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Agents of selection for behavioral responses to abiotic, biotic, and social environments are described as cognitive challenges
Ecology, and brain evolution has generated a growing literature—and sometimes controversy—over inferences made from correlating cognitive traits with neural metrics
Summary
Cognition is difficult to universally define (Logan et al, 2018; Bayne et al, 2019) and measure (Rowe and Healy, 2014; Simons and Tibbetts, 2019). To determine cognitive impacts on brain evolution, a model system should meet the following criteria: (1) the natural behavioral environment can be measured to assess sensory and processing requirements; (2) behavior can be quantified at multiple levels of intraspecies and interspecies biological organization; and (3) the metrics used to identify neural and genomic underpinnings are methodologically and statistically robust. With these points in mind, we identify fungus-growing ants as appropriate and insightful study models for cognitive evolution
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