Aggressive Mimicry and the Evolution of the Human Cognitive Niche.

ABSTRACT: The evolutionary origins of deception and its functional role in our species is a major focus of research in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution, often packaged under either the Social Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes the role that the evolution of our social systems may have played in scaffolding our cognitive traits, and the Foraging Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes how changes in the human dietary niche were met with subsequent changes in cognition to facilitate foraging of difficult-to-acquire foods. Despite substantive overlap, these hypotheses are often presented as competing schools of thought, and there have been few explicitly proposed theoretical links unifying the two. Utilizing cross-cultural data gathered from the Human Rel

SUBMITTER: Moser C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543935 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature