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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benjamin J. Ashton, Patrick Kennedy, Andrew N. Radford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18780-3

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