Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution
in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some …

Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

This book argues that there is a joint in nature between seeing and thinking, perception, and
cognition. Perception is constitutively iconic, nonconceptual, and nonpropositional, whereas …

Humans represent numbers along a mental number line (MNL), where smaller values are
located on the left and larger on the right. The origin of the MNL and its connections with …

Numerical skills are essential in our everyday life, and impairments in the development of
number processing and calculation have a negative impact on schooling and professional …

Un socle génétique, notre ADN (acide désoxyribonucléique), composé de trois milliards de
paires de nucléotides1, sorte de «gros œuvre» qui détermine la mise en place d'un réseau …

Evolution selects for traits that are of adaptive value and increase the fitness of an individual
or population. Numerical competence, the ability to estimate and process the number of …

The approximate number system or «sense of number» is a crucial, presymbolic mechanism
enabling animals to estimate quantities, which is essential for survival in various contexts …

Deception is a universal feature of life, at all levels and in all relationships both within
species and between species, inside individuals and outside, with strong effects on both …

Background Humans and non-human animals share an approximate non-verbal system for
representing and comparing numerosities that has no upper limit and for which accuracy is …