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| Title |
Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00245 |
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| Authors |
Louis Lefebvre |
| Abstract |
Recent work on birds and non-human primates has shown that taxonomic differences in field measures of innovation, tool use and social learning are associated with size of the mammalian cortex and avian mesopallium and nidopallium, as well as ecological traits like colonization success. Here, I review this literature and suggest that many of its findings are relevant to hominin intelligence. In particular, our large brains and increased intelligence may be partly independent of our ape phylogeny and the result of convergent processes similar to those that have molded avian and platyrrhine intelligence. Tool use, innovativeness and cultural transmission might be linked over our past and in our brains as operations of domain-general intelligence. Finally, colonization of new areas may have accompanied increases in both brain size and innovativeness in hominins as they have in other mammals and in birds, potentially accelerating hominin evolution via behavioral drive. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 20 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 15% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |
| Denmark | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 14 | 70% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 75% |
| Scientists | 5 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 163 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 155 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 17% |
| Researcher | 22 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 13% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 27 | 17% |
| Unknown | 16 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 70 | 43% |
| Psychology | 22 | 13% |
| Neuroscience | 11 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 23 | 14% |
| Unknown | 22 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 March 2020.
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