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How can the intelligence of monkeys and apes, and the huge brain expansion which marked human evolution be explained? In 1988, Machiavellian Intelligence was the first book to assemble the early evidence suggesting a new answer: that the evolution of intellect was primarily driven by selection for manipulative, social expertise within groups where the most challenging problem faced by individuals was dealing with their companions. Since then a wealth of new information and ideas has accumulated. This new book will bring readers up to date with the most important developments, extending the scope of the original ideas and evaluating them empirically from different perspectives. It is essential reading for reseachers and students in many different branches of evolution and behavioural sciences, primatology, and philosophy.
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The first collection of essays, Machiavellian Intelligence (CH, Feb'89), by the same editors, established the concept that the primate brain is primarily a social organ whose evolution is best understood by the advantage it gives in manipulating others of the same species. This concept is now widely accepted, and this new volume of essays does not so much advance the concept as demonstrate the great variety of subjects that may be considered in this light. Topics range from the anatomy of the brain to the structure of human agricultural societies. Some essays strengthen and extend the hypothesis, while others advocate alternatives. The work will be of primary use in graduate level institutions. Undergraduate libraries should acquire basic recent works on primate behavior such as those by Dorothy L. Cheney and Frans B.M. De Waal before considering this volume. The essays contain little or no data; there is a minimal index. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. T. C. Williams; Swarthmore College
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Preface |
1 Machiavellian IntelligenceRichard W. Byrne and Andrew Whiten |
2 Friendships, alliances, reciprocity and repairMarina Cords |
3 Why Machiavellian Intelligence may not be MachiavellianShirley C. Strum and Deborah Forster and Edwin Hutchins |
4 Social intelligence and success: don't be too clever in order to be smartAlain Schmitt and Karl Grammer |
5 Minding the behaviour of deceptionMarc Hauser |
6 The Machiavellian mindreaderAndrew Whiten |
7 Exploiting the expertise of othersAnne Russon |
8 Primates' knowledge of their natural habitat: as indicated in foragingCharles R. Menzel |
9 Evolution of the social brainRobert A. Barton and Robin Dunbar |
10 The modularity of social intelligenceGerd Gigerenzer |
11 The technical intelligence hypothesis: an additional evolutionary stimulus to intelligenceRichard W. Byrne |
12 Protean primates: the evolution of adaptive unpredictability in competition and courtshipGeoffrey Miller |
13 Egalitarian behaviour and the evolution of political intelligenceChristopher Boehm |
14 Social intelligence and language: another RubiconEsther Goody |
Index |