Psychology. Evolution of the social brain.

By Robin I. M. Dunbar. 2003

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

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The Chameleon Effect as Social Glue: Evidence for the Evolutionary Significance of Nonconscious Mimicry (2003, background): “Some anthropologists have even argued that the average size of a given primate’s group is the most reliable predictor of how large that species’ neocortex is. The larger the groups, the larger the neocortex, which is at least partially devoted to organizing and storing the social information that is”
The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary Perspective (2003, methodology): “Indeed, Dunbar (2003) has since shown, using MRI-derived data on brain volume provided by Semendeferi et al. (1997), that frontal lobe volume (widely regarded as the principal site for executive cognitive function) provides an even better fit to social group size (at least for a very small sample…”
White-faced capuchin monkeys show triadic awareness in their choice of allies (2004, background): “Although comparative treatments of this hypothesis (Barton and Dunbar 1997) have begun to include New World monkey taxa as data points, the extent to which platyrrhines actually show sophisticated social cognition is still largely unexplored.”
Social network size in humans (2003, background): “These findings suggest that there may be a cognitive constraint on the size of social networks in those species that live in intensely social groups (as opposed to simple aggregations), perhaps because the number or volume of neocortical neurons limits an organism’s information processing capacity, ”
The social role of touch in humans and primates: behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms. (2010, background): “Originally proposed as the Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis (Byrne andWhiten, 1988), this was subsequently developed in quantitative form as the social brain hypothesis based on a demonstration that both social group and other behavioural indices of social complexity correlate with relative neo”