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Behavioural ecology

proposal that large brains help animals survive by allowing flexible responses to new or changing environments.

In behavioural ecology, cognitive buffer hypothesis refers to proposal that large brains help animals survive by allowing flexible responses to new or changing environments. This meaning comes from Sol (2008) in Biology Letters.[1]

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  1. Sol, D. (2008). Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains. Biology Letters, 5(1), 130-133. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0621

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