Brain evolution: when is a group not a group?

Richard W. Byrne; Lucy A. Bates

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.018

Brain evolution: when is a group not a group?

Richard W. Byrne^*, Lucy A. Bates

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Centre for Comparative & Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract

In testing the 'social brain hypothesis' with comparative data, most research has used group size as an index of cognitive challenge. Recent work suggests that this measure is too crude to apply to a wide range of species, and biologists may need to develop other ways of extending these analyses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R883-R884
Number of pages	2
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	17
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.018
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2007

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