--- _id: '1936' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The social intelligence hypothesis states that the need to cope with complexities of social life has driven the evolution of advanced cognitive abilities. It is usually invoked in the context of challenges arising from complex intragroup structures, hierarchies, and alliances. However, a fundamental aspect of group living remains largely unexplored as a driving force in cognitive evolution: the competition between individuals searching for resources (producers) and conspecifics that parasitize their findings (scroungers). In populations of social foragers, abilities that enable scroungers to steal by outsmarting producers, and those allowing producers to prevent theft by outsmarting scroungers, are likely to be beneficial and may fuel a cognitive arms race. Using analytical theory and agent-based simulations, we present a general model for such a race that is driven by the producer-scrounger game and show that the race''s plausibility is dramatically affected by the nature of the evolving abilities. If scrounging and scrounging avoidance rely on separate, strategy-specific cognitive abilities, arms races are short-lived and have a limited effect on cognition. However, general cognitive abilities that facilitate both scrounging and scrounging avoidance undergo stable, long-lasting arms races. Thus, ubiquitous foraging interactions may lead to the evolution of general cognitive abilities in social animals, without the requirement of complex intragroup structures.' author: - first_name: Michal full_name: Arbilly, Michal last_name: Arbilly - first_name: Daniel full_name: Weissman, Daniel id: 2D0CE020-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Weissman - first_name: Marcus full_name: Feldman, Marcus last_name: Feldman - first_name: Uri full_name: Grodzinski, Uri last_name: Grodzinski citation: ama: Arbilly M, Weissman D, Feldman M, Grodzinski U. An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition. Behavioral Ecology. 2014;25(3):487-495. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru002 apa: Arbilly, M., Weissman, D., Feldman, M., & Grodzinski, U. (2014). An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition. Behavioral Ecology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru002 chicago: Arbilly, Michal, Daniel Weissman, Marcus Feldman, and Uri Grodzinski. “An Arms Race between Producers and Scroungers Can Drive the Evolution of Social Cognition.” Behavioral Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru002. ieee: M. Arbilly, D. Weissman, M. Feldman, and U. Grodzinski, “An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition,” Behavioral Ecology, vol. 25, no. 3. Oxford University Press, pp. 487–495, 2014. ista: Arbilly M, Weissman D, Feldman M, Grodzinski U. 2014. An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition. Behavioral Ecology. 25(3), 487–495. mla: Arbilly, Michal, et al. “An Arms Race between Producers and Scroungers Can Drive the Evolution of Social Cognition.” Behavioral Ecology, vol. 25, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 487–95, doi:10.1093/beheco/aru002. short: M. Arbilly, D. Weissman, M. Feldman, U. Grodzinski, Behavioral Ecology 25 (2014) 487–495. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:48Z date_published: 2014-02-13T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:54:11Z day: '13' department: - _id: NiBa doi: 10.1093/beheco/aru002 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 25' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014306/ month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 487 - 495 project: - _id: 25B07788-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '250152' name: Limits to selection in biology and in evolutionary computation publication: Behavioral Ecology publication_status: published publisher: Oxford University Press publist_id: '5157' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition type: journal_article user_id: 4435EBFC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 25 year: '2014' ...