Machiavellian intelligence : social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans
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Machiavellian intelligence : social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. [379]-410
Includes index
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Description
According to conventional wisdom, our unique human intellect results from evolutionary pressures for skilled tool use and for communication to enhance co-operation. This book explores a quite different idea: that the driving force was social expertise, allowing subtle manipulation of others within the social group. The need to outwit one's clever colleagues then produces an evolutionary spiralling of `Machiavellian intelligence'.
This book forms a complete and self-contained text on this topic, including the origins of the idea, a wealth of exciting applications in anthropology, psychology, and zoology, and a current evaluation of more traditional ideas -to what extent is Machiavellian intelligence complementary or alternative to them? With contributions by an international team of authors, the reader is brought to the frontiers of scientific work on the origin of human intellect.
Table of Contents
- Andrew Whiten & Richard Byrne: Editorial: The Machiavellian intelligence hypotheses
- THE ORIGINS OF THE IDEA: Nicholas Humphrey: The social function of intellect
- Alison Jolly: Lemur social behaviour and primate intelligence
- Michael Chance & Allan Mead: Social behaviour and primate evolution
- Andrew Whiten & Richard Byrne: Editorial: Taking (Machiavellian) intelligence apart
- WHAT PRIMATES KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: Robert Seyfarth & Dorothy Cheney: Do monkeys understand their relationships?
- Verena Dasser: Mapping social concepts in monkeys
- Peter Smith: The cognitive demands of children's social interactions with peers
- SOCIAL COMPLEXITY: THE EFFECT OF A THIRD PARTY: Hans Kummer: Tripartite relations in hamadryas baboons
- Frans de Waal: Chimpanzee politics
- Alexander Harcourt: Alliances in contests and social intelligence
- ARE PRIMATES MIND-READERS?: Emil Menzel: A group of chimpanzees in a one-acre field: leadership and communication
- David Premack: 'Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind' revisited
- Daniel Dennett: The intentional stance in theory and practice
- DECEPTION: Richard Byrne & Andrew Whiten: Tactical deception of familiar individuals in baboons
- Andrew Whiten & Richard Byrne: The manipulation of attention in primate tactical deception
- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh & Kelly McDonald: Deception and social manipulation in symbol-using apes
- Peter LaFreniere: The ontogeny of tactical deception in humans
- SOCIAL OR NON-SOCIAL ORIGINS OF INTELLIGENCE? Dorothy Cheney & Robert Seyfarth: Social and non-social knowledge in vervet monkeys
- Thomas Wynn: Tools and the evolution of human intelligence
- Katherine Milton: Foraging behaviour and the evolution of primate cognition
- EXPLOITING THE EXPERTISE OF OTHERS: Eduard Stammbach: An experimental study of social knowledge: adaptation to the special manipulative skills of single individuals in a Macaca fascicularis group
- Marc Hauser: Invention and social transmission: new data from wild vervet monkeys
- TAKING STOCK: John Crook: The experiential context of intellect
- Alison Jolly: The evolution of purpose
- References
- Index.
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ISBN 9780198521792
Description
According to conventional wisdom, our unique human intellect results from evolutionary pressures for skilled tool use and for communication to enhance co-operation. This book explores the theory that the driving force behind the human intellect was social expertise, allowing subtle manipulation of others within the social group, who themselves are seen as posing the most challenging problems faced by our ancestors. The need to outwit clever colleagues then produces an evolutionary spiralling of "Machiavellian intelligence". The origin of the theory is expanded and there are applications in anthropology, psychology and zoology. Included also is an evaluation of more traditional ideas and to what extent Machiavellian intelligence is complementary or alternative to them.
Table of Contents
- Editorial - the Machiavellian intelligence hypotheses. The origins of the idea
- what primates know about social relationships
- social complexity - the effect of a third party
- are primates mind-readers?
- deception - including tactical deception in baboons, deception and social manipulation in symbol-using apes, the ontogeny of tactical deception in humans
- social or non-social origins of intelligence?
- exploiting the expertise of others
- taking stock - including the experimental context of intellect, the evolution of purpose. References. Index.
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