Sociality and the evolution of intelligence.
Two recently published studies provide important new data relevant to the evolution of human intelligence. Both studies of social behavior in baboons, Bergman et al. demonstrated that baboons use two criteria simultaneously to classify other troop members, and Silk et al. showed that highly social female baboons have higher reproductive success than less social females. Taken together, these studies provide strong evidence for the importance of social context in cognitive evolution.
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Alan C
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School of Biological Sciences and Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0118, USA.
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D010215:Papio / Q000523:psychology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012930:Social Dominance; D012931:Social Environment