The social brain hypothesis assumes the evolution of social behaviour changes animals' ecological environments, and predicts evolutionary shifts in social structure will be associated with changes in ...

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar. Thames and Hudson: 2014. Sociobiology was born in 1975, when biologist Edward O.

Semantic cognition encompasses human performance based on knowledge about the properties of objects, relations among objects and word meanings. One approach to semantic cognition has arisen within the ...

In the final article in this series, we move from unraveling cognition to mapping a new conceptual landscape. Over the course of four articles, I’ve examined the dismantling of cognition as a singular ...