Social intelligence, innovation, and enhanced brain size in primates

By Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Evolutionary ecology of learning: insights from fruit flies (2009, positive): “More recent decades have seen the emergence and development of cognitive ecology, which focuses on the functions of learning in nature and on adaptive differences in learning skills between populations and species in relation to their ecology (Shettleworth 1999; Healy and Braithwaite 2000; Reader an”
Food stealing in birds: brain or brawn? (2007, methodology): “…and/or social complexity (Barton 1996; Burish et al. 2004; Shultz & Dunbar 2006), frugivory (Clutton-Brock & Harvey 1980), capture of mobile prey (Garamszegi et al. 2002), innovation frequency (Lefebvre et al. 1997; Reader & Laland 2002) and tool use (Lefebvre et al. 2002; Reader & Laland 2002).”
The role of behavior in evolution: a search for mechanism (2008, background): “Species with high cognitive abilities have been shown to produce novel innovative behavior at a high rate (Lefebvre et al. 1997; Reader and Laland 2002) and this has been suggested to influence patterns of species richness in two ways.”
Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds (2009, positive): “Since 1997, thousands of such reports (termed ‘innovations’: Wyles et al. 1983; Kummer & Goodall 1985) have been collated in birds (Lefebvre et al. 1997) and primates (Reader & Laland 2002), yielding robust taxonomic differences that are correlated with residual brain size.”
Evolutionary Biology of Animal Cognition (2004, background): “…(novel or unusual feeding behaviors) and the volumes of hyperstriatum ventrale and neostriatum in birds and neocortex and striatum in primates (Reader & Laland 2002, Lefebvre et al. 2004), and (d ) larger brain size in mammals with more challenging feeding behaviors: fruit- versus…”
Cognitive abilities related to tool use in the woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida (2004, background): “These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, at least in primates, brain size and tool use ability are causally linked ( Reader & Laland 2002 ).”
Behavioural flexibility and invasion success in birds (2002, background): “In primates, Reader & Laland (in press) and Reader (2000) have found an association between feeding innovation rate, relative size of the neocortex, social learning and tool use.”
The evolution of hippocampus volume and brain size in relation to food hoarding in birds (2004, background): “Hence, the neural adaptation to a specialized behaviour may favour the evolution of several neural structures affecting the evolution of the entire brain (e.g. Gittleman 1994; Lefebvre et al. 1997; Madden 2001; Garamszegi et al. 2002; Reader & Laland 2002).”
Intelligence in Corvids and Apes: A Case of Convergent Evolution? (2009, background): “In support of the connection between tool-use and brain evolution is the correlation between relative ‘executive brain’ (neocortex and striatum) and amount of tool-use reported for a given species (Reader & Laland 2002).”
Are bigger brains better? (2009, background): “In recent years, several studies on vertebrates have found a correlation between brain size and some form of learning flexibility, including the generation of novel ‘innovative’ responses to environmental challenges [13,120].”
The relation between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings (2006, neutral): “Templeton et al. 1999; Reader & Laland 2002; Dunbar 2003), within-group relations between social rank and learning performance have received less scientific scrutiny.”
Behavioural flexibility predicts species richness in birds, but not extinction risk (2003, background): “A similar association between corrected innovation frequency and relative size of the neocortex and striatum has also been demonstrated in primates (Reader & Laland 2002), indicating that the link between innovation and neural substrate size might be a general one.”
Complex relationship between multiple measures of cognitive ability and male mating success in satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (2011, background): “Distinct from this line of research has been the finding across multiple taxonomic groups that species counts of feeding innovations are associated with other measures thought to indicate aspects of cognitive ability (Lefebvre et al. 2002; Reader & Laland 2002; Deaner et al. 2006).”
Observational social learning and socially induced practice of routine skills in immature wild orang-utans (2016, background): “Also, since the ability to learn socially from others makes learning more efficient, it might be the driving force behind the evolution of intelligence (Reader & Laland, 2002; van Schaik & Burkart, 2011).”