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Michael J Sheehan1, Elizabeth A Tibbetts

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. mic@umich.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 7, 2011
PubMed
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El reconocimiento facial evolucionó en las avispas junto con habilidades especializadas de aprendizaje facial, lo que permite una identificación rápida y precisa de las caras de las avispas. Esto contrasta con los parientes que carecen de estas habilidades, destacando la cognición.

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