Cooperative Breeding

M Taborsky - Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2021 - Springer
How is an altruistic act favored by natural selection if it incurs a cost to the actor? As the
behavior would have a detrimental impact on the actor's reproductive success, the genes …

[BOOK][B] Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science

The use of sacred values by humans to enforce cooperation has been seen throughout
human history, as demonstrated by philosophers like Marx and Aristotle observing that …

Costly signaling theory

FT McAndrew - Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science, 2021 - Springer
How is an altruistic act favored by natural selection if it incurs a cost to the actor? As the
behavior would have a detrimental impact on the actor's reproductive success, the genes …

Causal and inferential reasoning in animals.

CJ Völter, J Call - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Elucidating the nature, use, and origin of knowledge in animals is one of the major
endeavors of comparative psychology. Two aspects of knowledge used in inferential …

Is there a link between the crafting of tools and the evolution of cognition?

AH Taylor, RD Gray - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to craft tools is one of the defining features of our species. The technical
intelligence hypothesis predicts that tool‐making species should have enhanced physical …

Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology

L Al-Shawaf, DMG Lewis, YS Wehbe… - Encyclopedia of …, 2021 - Springer
How is an altruistic act favored by natural selection if it incurs a cost to the actor? As the
behavior would have a detrimental impact on the actor's reproductive success, the genes …

[PDF][PDF] Can comparative psychology crack its toughest nut

DJ Povinelli - Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
What is the likelihood that humans will ever determine if other animals engage in higher-
order thinking? In examining what has happened in the twenty years since the publication of …

High-tech and tactile: Cognitive enrichment for zoo-housed gorillas

FE Clark, SI Gray, P Bennett, LJ Mason… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The field of environmental enrichment for zoo animals, particularly great apes, has been
revived by technological advancements such as touchscreen interfaces and motion sensors …

Extending the reach of tooling theory: A neurocognitive and phylogenetic perspective

JAD Colbourne, AMI Auersperg… - Topics in Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tool use research has suffered from a lack of consistent theoretical frameworks. There is a
plethora of tool use definitions and the most widespread ones are so inclusive that the …

Problem solving.

A Seed, C Mayer - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The piassava nut that grows on palm trees in Brazil contains high-energy food, but getting
access to it poses a problem: It requires around 11.5 kN of force to crack, up to 13 times that …