Social Intelligence

• Introduction: Social intelligence: from brain to culture ; 1. Cognitive adaptations of social bonding in birds ; 2. Social cognition by food-caching corvids: the western scrub-jay as a natural psychologist ; 3. Social intelligence in the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) ; 4. The adaptive value of soicality in mammalian agroups ; 5. Social brains, simple minds: does social complexity really require cognitive complexity? ; 6. Culture in great apes: using intricate complexity in feeding skills to trace the evolutionary origin of human technical prowess ; 7. Dolphin social intelligence: complex alliance relationships in bottlenose dolphins and a consideration of selective environments for extreme brain size evolution in mammals ; 8. The evolution of animal 'cultures' and social intelligence ; 9. Getting back to the rough ground: deception and 'social living' ; 10. Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis ; 11. Understanding primate brain evolution ; 12. Before and below 'theory of mind': embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition ; 13. The social brain? ; 14. Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human-robot interaction ; 15. Did farming arise from a misappliction of social intelligence? ; 16. Social intelligence, human intelligence and niche construction ; 17. On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a 'theory of mind' ; 18. The society of selves

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