Link Between Sociality And Brain Increase In Carnivores Questioned By Evolutionary Biologists
Monday, May 25, 2009 - 22:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Packs of hunting dogs, troops of baboons, herds of antelope: when people observe social animals, they are often struck by how intelligent they seem, and recent studies suggest that sociality has played a key role in the evolution of larger brain size among several orders of mammals. But new research calls this hypothesis into question -- at least for carnivores.