Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 65-69Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.11.003
Keywords
-
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The social intelligence hypothesis posits that complex cognition and enlarged 'executive brains' evolved in response to challenges that are associated with social complexity. This hypothesis has been well supported, but some recent data are inconsistent with its predictions. It is becoming increasingly clear that multiple selective agents, and non-selective constraints, must have acted to shape cognitive abilities in humans and other animals. The task now is to develop a larger theoretical framework that takes into account both inter-specific differences and similarities in cognition. This new framework should facilitate consideration of how selection pressures that are associated with sociality interact with those that are imposed by non-social forms of environmental complexity, and how both types of functional demands interact with phylogenetic and developmental constraints.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available