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The Social Brain Hypothesis

brain, 9: 10, 1998.
Authors: R.I.M. Dunbar
URL: http://www.nedprod.com/Niall_stuff/powerrules/Dunbar_1998.pdf
Tags: cognition evolution social
Abstract: Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world. Most attention has therefore been focused on such features as pattern recognition, color vision, and speech perception. By extension, it was assumed that brains evolved to deal with essentially ecological problem-solving tasks. An alternative hypothesis offered during the late 1980s was that primates’ large brains reflect the computational demands of the complex social systems that characterize the order.
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@article{dunbar9sbh,
title = {The Social Brain Hypothesis},
author = {R.I.M. Dunbar},
journal = {brain},
pages = {10},
url = {http://www.nedprod.com/Niall_stuff/powerrules/Dunbar_1998.pdf},
volume = {9},
year = {1998},
abstract = {Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world. Most attention has therefore been focused on such features as pattern recognition, color vision, and speech perception. By extension, it was assumed that brains evolved to deal with essentially ecological problem-solving tasks. An alternative hypothesis offered during the late 1980s was that primates’ large brains reflect the computational demands of the complex social systems that characterize the order.},
keywords = {cognition evolution social }
}