The social brain: mind, language, and society in evolutionary perspective
The social brain (or Machiavellian Intelligence) hypothesis was proposed to explain primates' unusually large brains: It argues that the cognitive demands of living in complexly bonded social groups selected for increases in executive brain (principally neocortex). The evidence for this and alt...
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Annual Reviews
2003
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