Evolution of Primate Social Cognition (eBook)

Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in the Institute for Advanced Study at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and member of the Primate Cognition Research Group at the Leibniz Science Campus in Göttingen. She is a philosopher of cognitive and life sciences, with a particular interest in primatology, and in comparative and developmental psychology. Her work focuses on social cognition and social learning strategies in human and nonhuman primates, and on their impact on the evolution of human-like cultural cognition. Fabio Di Vincenzo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental Biology of the Sapienza University in Rome. He is councillor of the Italian Institute of Human Paleontology (IsIPU) and the Italian Institute of Anthropology (IsITA). His scientific interests focus on the evolution human populations during the Middle Pleistocene in Europe. Francesca De Petrillo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the evolutionary origins of human cognition by employing a multidisciplinary approach integrating both comparative and developmental research. In doing so, she aims to elucidate which aspects of cognition are unique to humans, and how species’ differences in life history, ecology, and social structure account for differences in their cognitive skills. She received a PhD in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology from Sapienza University of Rome and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. 

Part 1: Aspects of Primate Social Cognition

What did you get? What social learning, collaboration, prosocial behaviour, and inequity aversion tell us about primate social cognition

Lydia M. Hopper & Katherine A. Cronin

Affective stages, motivation, and prosocial behaviour in primates

Hira Kuroshima & Kazuo Fujita

Understanding empathy from the coordinative movement in humans and non-human primates

Lira Yu, Hattori, Yamamoto, Misaki Tomonga

The cognitive implications of intentional communication: A multi-faceted mirror

David Leavens

A comparison of socio-communicative behaviour in chimpanzees and bonobos

Jared P. Taglialatela, Scott Milne & Robert Evans

 

Part 2: Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling

Primate social cognition – evidence from primate field studies

Julia Ostner

Contribution of social network analysis and collective phenomena to understanding social complexity and cognition

Denis Boyer & Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez

Comparative economics: Using experimental economics paradigms to understand primate social decision-making

Julia Watzek, Mackenzie Smith, & Sara F. Brosnan

The special case of non-human primates in animal experimentation

Augusto Vitale & Marta Borgi

Epigenetics and the evolution of human cognition

Gillian Ragsdale  & Robert A. Foley

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively different kinds of human?

Eiluned Pearce

 

Part 3: Cultural Artifacts and Transmission in Primates

Recognition culture in primate tool use

Micheal Haslam, Tiago Falòtico, Lydia Luncz

 Culture and selective social learning in wild and captive primates

Stuart K. Watson*& Jennifer Botting* (*joined first author), Andrew Whiten and Erica van de Waal

The zone of latent solutions concept and its relationship to the classics: Vygotsky and Köhler

Eva Reind, Elisa Bandini, Claudio Tennie

Minimal cognitive preconditions on the ratchet

Elizabeth  Renner & Tadeusz  Zawidzki

 Emulation, (over)imitation and social creation of cultural information

Laura Desirée Di Paolo & Fabio Di Vincenzo

 The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean

Ceri Shipton & Nielsen

Visuospatial integration: Palaeoanthropological and archaeological perspectives

Emiliano Bruner, Enza Spinapolice, Ariane Burke & Karenleigh Overmannspectives