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Nature 459, 506 (28 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/459506a; Published online 27 May 2009

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Cognition: evolution does help to explain how minds work

Lewis Wolpert1

  1. Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
    Email: l.wolpert@ucl.ac.uk

In their Essay 'Can evolution explain how minds work?' (Nature 458, 832–833; 2009), Johan Bolhuis and Clive Wynne use Darwin's claim that there is "no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties" to explain how people have gone down the wrong path in studying cognition.

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