Many critical aspects of contemporary human cognitive functionality (eg, reading, fixing a
car) evolved historically in a time frame that biological natural selection cannot account for …

What are the origins of intelligent behavior? The demands associated with living in complex
social groups have been the favored explanation for the evolution of primate cognition in …

To understand how our brain evolved and what it is for, we are in urgent need of knowledge
about the cognitive skills of a large variety of animal species and individuals, and their …

Highlights•Studies of cognition in appropriate captive settings complement wild
studies.•Captive work can match environments, use novel stimuli, and control for …

Within comparative psychology, the evolution of animal cognition is typically studied either
by comparing indirect measures of cognitive abilities (eg, relative brain size) across many …

Linking cognitive performance with fitness outcomes, measured using both reproductive and
survival metrics, of free-living animals is crucial for understanding the evolution of cognition …

People and other animals can search for information inside their heads. Where does this
ability come from, and what does it enable cognitive systems to do? In this article, we …

The 'social brain'hypothesis has had a major impact on the study of comparative cognition.
However, despite a strong sense, gained from both experimental and observational work …

Over the last few decades, comparative cognitive research has focused on the pinnacles of
mental evolution, asking all-or-nothing questions such as which animals (if any) possess a …

Cognitive ecology integrates cognition, ecology, and neurobiology in one topic and has
recently broadened into an exciting diversity of themes covering the entire range of cognition …