认知
竞争对手分析
觅食
心理学
认知科学
社会智力
认知心理学
社会认知
社会心理学
生物
神经科学
生态学
经济
管理
作者
Robert A. Barton,Robin Dunbar
出处
期刊:Cambridge University Press eBooks
[Cambridge University Press]
日期:1997-09-25
卷期号:: 240-263
被引量:157
标识
DOI:10.1017/cbo9780511525636.010
摘要
The social intelligence hypothesis posits that the large brains and distinctive cognitive abilities of primates (in particular, anthropoid primates) evolved via a spiralling arms race in which social competitors developed increasingly sophisticated ‘Machiavellian’ strategies (Byrne & Whiten, 1988). The idea stemmed originally from observations suggesting that the polyadic interactions and relationships typical of anthropoid societies place exceptional demands on the ability of individuals to process and integrate social information. This hypothesis has been contrasted with foraging niche hypotheses, which propose that it is the need to find food in patchy, unpredictable environments, or even to extract it from awkward substrates, that required large brains and cognitive specialisation (e.g. Gibson, 1986; Milton, 1988). A major task in the study of primate cognition is to devise tests of these hypotheses.
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