Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

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ABSTRACT The Social Intelligence Hypothesis (SIH) is one of the leading explanations for
the evolution of cognition. Since its inception a vast body of literature investigating the …

Individuals vary in their cognitive performance. While this variation forms the foundation of
the study of human psychometrics, its broader importance is only recently being recognized …

Measures of cognitive performance, derived from psychometric tasks, have yielded
important insights into the factors governing cognitive variation. However, concerns remain …

Since the 1950s, researchers have examined how differences in the social and asocial
environment affect learning in rats, mice, and, more recently, a variety of other species …

To understand the evolution of cognitive abilities, we need to understand both how selection
acts upon them and their genetic (co) variance structure. Recent work suggests that there …

Cognitive biases for encoding spatial information (orientation strategies) in relation to self
(egocentric) or landmarks (allocentric) differ between species or populations according to …

Cognition has evolved to allow organisms to process, use and store information in their
natural environment. Yet, cognitive abilities are traditionally measured in controlled …

The causes and consequences of interspecific variation in sex-specific contributions to
animal parental care are relatively well understood during pregnancy or incubation and …