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Data show that human-like cognitive traits do not evolve in animals through natural selection. Rather, human-like cognition evolves through runaway selection for social skills. Here, we discuss why social selection may be uniquely effective for promoting human-like cognition, and the conditions that facilitate it. These observations suggest future directions for artificial life research aimed at generating human-like cognition in digital organisms.
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Sadedin, S., Paperin, G. (2011). Implications of the Social Brain Hypothesis for Evolving Human-Like Cognition in Digital Organisms. In: Kampis, G., Karsai, I., Szathmáry, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. ECAL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5778. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4_8
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