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_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
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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
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volume: 25
year: '2014'
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