Intelligence is suggested to have evolved in primates in response to complexities in the
environment faced by their ancestors. Corvids, a large‐brained group of birds, have been …

The social brain hypothesis is a well-accepted and well-supported evolutionary theory of
enlarged brain size in the non-human primates. Nevertheless, it tends to emphasize an …

The assumption that people understand each other by employing a 'commonsense'or
'folk'psychology is currently pervasive in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and various …

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all
perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data …

The present work is part of a decade-long study on the spontaneous use of stones for
cracking hard-shelled nuts by a semi-free-ranging group of brown capuchin monkeys …

The hypothesis that the enlarged brain size of the primates was selected for by social, rather
than purely ecological, factors has been strongly influential in studies of primate cognition …

Innate cognitive capacities are orchestrated by cultural practices to produce high-level
cognitive processes. In human activities, examples of this phenomenon range from everyday …

In light of the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis, social intelligence resulted from the
successful exploitation of rivals for personal benefits. In humans, natural selection might …

A model of" distributed cognition" is contrasted with the" mental representation" model
exemplified by Tomasello and Call's Primate Cognition. Rather than using behavior as a …

The ideas that found expression here were first inspired by Jerry Bruner's magnificent book
Acts of Meaning and a seminar held by Fred Dretske and Michael Bratman at Stanford …