Interactions with conspecific outsiders as drivers of cognitive evolution

The social intelligence hypothesis predicts that social organisms tend to be more intelligent because within-group interactions drive cognitive evolution. Here, authors propose that conspecific outsiders can be just as important in selecting for sophisticated cognitive adaptations.

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Main Authors: Benjamin J. Ashton, Patrick Kennedy, Andrew N. Radford
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/8dd41f239bd04e808367b8eed94f4e1a
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