Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence.

By M. Flinn, David C. Geary, C. Ward. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child (2006, background): “The strict version of the novelty hypothesis, however, is diYcult to reconcile with the long evolutionary histories of complex sociality in primates, and especially humans, accompanied by dramatic changes in the brain (Flinn et al., 2005; Geary, 2005a).”
Coalitions in theory and reality: a review of pertinent variables and processes (2015, background): “mutually exclusive phenomena: for example, the need for in-group members to cooperate during between-group encounters is known to profoundly affect the social dynamics of groups, and hence the formation of withingroup coalitions (humans: Alexander, 1990, 2014; Flinn et al., 2005; Choi & Bowles, 2007”
An Evolutionarily Informed Education Science (2008, background): “Following Alexander, my colleagues and I have proposed that hominid evolution involved an increasing ability to control the ecology and a ramping up of social competition to control the best ecologies (Flinn et al., 2005; Geary, 2005).”
Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance (2010, positive): “…consciousness, which enabled the recognition of distance and perspective taking; developing language, which enabled forming larger and more complex social groups and relations; and domestication of animals and plants, which required an extended temporal perspective (Flinn, Geary, & Ward, 2005).”
Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk (2009, background): “data complement social-brain models of the evolution of intelligence (e.g., Alexander 1990; Flinn et al. 2005; Geary 2005), which posit that population expansions and contractions exacerbated social competition, and that the disproportionately large size of the human brain evolved primarily in respo”