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Klappentext Why are humans so clever? This book explores the idea that this cleverness has evolved through the increasing complexity of social groups. It brings together contributions from leaders in the field! examining social intelligence in different animal species and exploring its development! evolution and the brain systems upon which it depends. Zusammenfassung Why are humans so clever? This book explores the idea that this cleverness has evolved through the increasing complexity of social groups. It brings together contributions from leaders in the field, examining social intelligence in different animal species and exploring its development, evolution and the brain systems upon which it depends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Social intelligence: from brain to culture 1: Nathan J Emery, Amanda M Seed, Auguste M P von Bayern and Nicola S Clayton: Cognitive adaptations of social bonding in birds 2: Nicola S Clayton, Joanna M Dally and Nathan J Emery: Social cognition by food-caching corvids: the western scrub-jay as a natural psychologist 3: Kay E Holekamp, Sharleen T Sakai and Barbara L Lundrigan: Social intelligence in the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) 4: Joan B Silk: The adaptive value of soicality in mammalian agroups 5: Louise Barrett, Peter Henzi and Drew Rendall: Social brains, simple minds: does social complexity really require cognitive complexity? 6: Richard W Byrne: Culture in great apes: using intricate complexity in feeding skills to trace the evolutionary origin of human technical prowess 7: Richard C Connor: Dolphin social intelligence: complex alliance relationships in bottlenose dolphins and a consideration of selective environments for extreme brain size evolution in mammals 8: Andrew Whiten and Carel P van Schaik: The evolution of animal 'cultures' and social intelligence 9: Vasudevi Reddy: Getting back to the rough ground: deception and 'social living' 10: Henrike Moll and Michael Tomasello: Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis 11: R I M Dunbar and Susanne Shultz: Understanding primate brain evolution 12: Vittorio Gallese: Before and below 'theory of mind': embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition 13: Chris D Frith: The social brain? 14: Kerstin Dautenhahn: Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human-robot interaction 15: Steven Mithen: Did farming arise from a misappliction of social intelligence? 16: Kim Sterelny: Social intelligence, human intelligence and niche construction 17: Derek C Penn and Daniel J Povinelli: On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a 'theory of mind' 18: Nicholas Humphrey: The society of selves ...
