Cooperation and the evolution of intelligence

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1740, 2012, Pages 3027-3034

  McNally, Luke ^a,b   Brown, Sam P ^c   Jackson, Andrew L ^a,b  

^a Centre for Biodiversity Research   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Machiavellian intelligence; Prisoner's dilemma; Reciprocity; Snowdrift game; Social brain

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURAL SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRISONER DILEMMA; RECIPROCITY; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; CETACEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84863104009     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0206     Document Type: Article

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