Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants
Comparative cognitive science of humans has tended to overwhelmingly emphasize similarities and differences between humans and other living hominids, particularly chimpanzees and bonobos. In thus under-emphasizing convergent evolution, this skew systematically misidentifies several crucial explanato...
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| description | Comparative cognitive science of humans has tended to overwhelmingly emphasize similarities and differences between humans and other living hominids, particularly chimpanzees and bonobos. In thus under-emphasizing convergent evolution, this skew systematically misidentifies several crucial explanatory targets, particularly where cultural evolution is concerned. While concentration within the hominid and wider primate lines can tell us much about genetic constraints on human culture and cognition, at least as much attention should be paid to species in which patterns of evolved social cognition respond to problems faced by ancestral hominins. Elephants furnish a first and closest example. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-97906bbd774d43d2820a600425be6bcd2025-02-10T13:25:36ZengSciendoCultural Science1836-04162022-12-01141778410.2478/csj-2022-0011Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and ElephantsRoss Don0University College Cork, Ireland; University of Cape Town, South Africa; Georgia State University, USAComparative cognitive science of humans has tended to overwhelmingly emphasize similarities and differences between humans and other living hominids, particularly chimpanzees and bonobos. In thus under-emphasizing convergent evolution, this skew systematically misidentifies several crucial explanatory targets, particularly where cultural evolution is concerned. While concentration within the hominid and wider primate lines can tell us much about genetic constraints on human culture and cognition, at least as much attention should be paid to species in which patterns of evolved social cognition respond to problems faced by ancestral hominins. Elephants furnish a first and closest example.https://doi.org/10.2478/csj-2022-0011comparative cognitive scienceconvergent evolutionhuman social and cultural cognitionelephant social cognition |
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| title | Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants |
| title_full | Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants |
| title_fullStr | Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants |
| title_short | Comparative Cognitive Science and Convergent Evolution: Humans and Elephants |
| title_sort | comparative cognitive science and convergent evolution humans and elephants |
| topic | comparative cognitive science convergent evolution human social and cultural cognition elephant social cognition |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/csj-2022-0011 |
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