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The Social Brain Hypothesis


The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution

The social brain hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the fact that primates have unusually large brains for body size compared to all other ...

Social Brain Hypothesis and Human Evolution

The social brain hypothesis, which argues that primates need large brains because their form of sociality is much more complex than that of other species.

Social Brain Hypothesis - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

The Anatomy of Friendship ... The social brain hypothesis is an explanation for the evolution of large brains in primates: primates evolved larger brains (and ...

Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis

We offer a view of primate brain and social evolution that is grounded in the body and action, rather than minds and metarepresentation.

Cooperation and the social brain hypothesis in primate ... - Frontiers

The social brain hypothesis posits that species with larger brains tend to have greater social complexity. Various lines of empirical evidence have ...

Full article: The social brain hypothesis – thirty years on

The social brain hypothesis – thirty years on ... The social brain hypothesis, and its use to predict a natural grouping size for humans (Dunbar's Number), was ...

The social brain hypothesis - Dunbar - 1998 - Wiley Online Library

Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has assumed that brains evolved to process factual ...

The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Implications for Social Evolution

PDF | The social brain hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the fact that primates have unusually large brains for body size compared to all.

The Social Brain: Neural Basis of Social Knowledge - PubMed Central

The hypothesis argues that emotional signals, mediated in part by regions in the VMPC, can be elicited by the anticipation or consideration of the future ...

The social brain hypothesis: An evolutionary perspective on the ...

The social brain hypothesis focuses on the role of sociality in driving brain size evolution within primates, and we have argued that this continues to be felt ...

The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution

Abstract. The social brain hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the fact that primates have unusually large brains for body size ...

Social Brain Hypothesis: Vocal and Gesture Networks of Wild ...

These results suggest that in addition to grooming, both gestures and synchronized vocalizations may play key roles in allowing chimpanzees to manage a large ...

A critical review of Dunbar's social brain hypothesis

Dunbar's argument can now be formulated this way: brains evolved for social life because group size depends on the cognitive resources and the time available to ...

Study confirms social brain theory - BBC News

A computer model has supported the social brain theory - that animals in complex social groups have evolved larger brains.

The social brain hypothesis

in favor of the social brain hypothesis was, at best, anecdotal.6 In this article,. I shall first show how we can test between the competing hypotheses more ...

Social Brain Perspectives on the Social and Evolutionary ... - MDPI

The social brain hypothesis posits that the cognitive pressures of residing in dynamic animal societies, selected for increases in the volume of the primate ...

The social brain: Mind, language, and society in evolutionary ...

The social brain (or Machiavellian Intelligence) hypothesis was proposed to explain primates' unusually large brains: It argues that the cognitive demands ...

Cooperation and the social brain hypothesis in primate social ... - arXiv

The social brain hypothesis states that the relative size of the neocortex is larger for species with higher social complexity as a result of evolution.

What's So Social about the Social Brain? R.I.M. Dunbar

However, the nature of primate (and hence human) sociality, as reflected in the social brain hypothesis, is more complex and involves long term bonded ...

The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary ...

The social brain (or Machiavellian Intelligence) hypothesis was proposed to explain primates' unusually large brains.