The social brain hypothesis

作者：Robin Dunbar · 发表于：Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · 年份：1998 · DOI：10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1998)6:5<178::aid-evan5>3.0.co;2-8 · 被引用次数：2692 · 研究领域：Child and Animal Learning Development、Action Observation and Synchronization、Language and cultural evolution

Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world. Most attention has therefore been focused on such features as pattern recognition, color vision, and speech perception. By extension, it was assumed that brains evolved to deal with essentially ecological problem-solving tasks. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.