Machiavellian intelligence

A.Whiten (eds) Machiavellian Intelligence, Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

Byrne, R. Whiten, A. (eds) (1988). Machiavellian Intelligence. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

So, is the MI hypothesis right The diverse papers that made up Machiavellian intelligence (Byrne Whiten 1988) were not really concerned to test the hypothesis as such. Rather, when assembled together they suggested that the... 

TABLE 3 Some components of Machiavellian intelligence in primates... 

The idea of social or Machiavellian intelligence is still quite new, and although already influential, the essential complexity of its subject matter means that we are probably just scratching the surface in our attempts to understand it. However, the first proper tests of the MI hypothesis have supported it, giving encouragement to deeper attempts to dissect both the cognitive capacities involved and the dimensions of social complexity to which they are adapted. It... 

Barton RA, Dunbar RIM 1997 Evolution of the social brain. In Whiten A, Byrne RW (eds) Machiavellian intelligence II evaluations and extensions. Cambridge University Press,... 

Byrne RW, Whiten A 1988 Machiavellian intelligence social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes and humans. Oxford University Press, Oxford Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM 1990 How monkeys see the world inside the mind of another species. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL... 

Whiten A 1999a The Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis. In Wilson RA, Keil F (eds) MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, p 495-497... 

Whiten A, Byrne RW 1988b Taking (Machiavellian) intelligence apart. In Byrne RW, Whiten A (eds) Machiavellian intelligence. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p 50—65... 

Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis and its proposed increasing social complexity fits perfectly with my surmise. Increased social complexity and the evolution of a large, expensive to support nervous system go hand in hand with extreme reliance on habit routine generation as the primary cognitive mechanism. One major consideration is that a large brain requires an excellent and copious diet, a requirement that would be fulfilled best in... 

Machiavellian intelligence, Richard w. Byrne and Andrew whiten, editors, clarendon Press, Oxford university Press, 1988. (back)... 

Katherine Milton, "Foraging behavior and the evolution of primate intelligence", in Machiavellian Intelligence, ibid., pp285-3O5. (back)... 

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