Evolution of the Social Brain

By Robin I. M. Dunbar, S. Shultz. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Mind the Gap: Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Our Unique Features (2010, background): “The cooperative breeding hypothesis is less consistent with hypotheses that consider human behavior and cognition as driven by the need to deal with social complexity, including the various versions of the Machiavellian Intelligence hypothesis (Dunbar 2003).”
Allostasis: a model of predictive regulation. (2012, positive): “Consistent with this brain expansion of apes, especially the frontal lobe, correlates with tool use [33].”
The evolution of self-control (2014, methodology): “As a measure of social complexity, we tested the hypothesis that social group size, which covaries with the neocortex ratio in anthropoid primates (129), would predict performance in the self-control tasks.”
The enemy between us: The psychological and social costs of inequality (2017, background): “(Dunbar & Shultz, 2007) Given that other people can be anything from our most feared rivals to our best source of cooperation and assistance, the quality of social relations and the handling of hierarchical relationships will always have been crucial to survival, wellbeing and reproductive success.”
The Simple Rules of Social Contagion (2013, neutral): “While humans have developed large brains, partly to handle the mental demands of social life [9, 30], cognitive constraints imposed by our brain’s ﬁnite capacity to process information aﬀects social behavior, for example, by limiting maximum group size [10].”
Self-Transcendent Emotions and Their Social Functions: Compassion, Gratitude, and Awe Bind Us to Others Through Prosociality (2017, background): “Evolutionary claims about the functions of awe are predicated on the assumption that individuals attain goals (e.g., hunting large mammals) and fend off threats (e.g., warfare) more successfully in groups than alone (Dunbar & Shultz, 2007; Nowak et al., 2010; Sober & Wilson, 1998).”
Are there specialized circuits for social cognition and are they unique to humans? (2013, background): “However, it is also possible that large brain size reflects the complexity of primate, and especially human, social environments [4].”
Heterogeneity within the frontoparietal control network and its relationship to the default and dorsal attention networks (2017, background): “This proposal aligns with suggestion that there is an intimate relationship between brain evolution, including expansion of the anterior prefrontal cortex in humans (90), and the emergence of complex social life (91).”
The brain opioid theory of social attachment: a review of the evidence (2011, background): “A focus on the neurobiological mech anisms of relationship onset within a limited group of species which exhibit only restricted forms of pairbonding behaviour must inevitably be inadequate (Dunbar & Shultz, 2007).”
The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution (2009, background): “E-mail: robin.dunbar@anthro.ox.ac.uk ISSN 0301-4460 print/ISSN 1464-5033 online # 2009 Informa UK Ltd. DOI: 10.1080/03014460902960289 hypothesis (Barton and Dunbar 1997).”
Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates (2004, background): “[2001] play, while Dunbar and colleagues [Dunbar, 1992, 1995, 1998; Barton and Dunbar, 1997; Dunbar and Bever, 1998; Kudo and Dunbar, 2001], and Marino [1996], have focused on social complexity and group size.”