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Humphrey (1976) proposed that the major engine of primate cognitive evolution was social competition. Vygotsky (1930–1980) also emphasized the social dimension of intelligence, but he focused on cultural aspects such as collaboration, communication, and teaching. Moll and Tomasello (2007) attempted to integrate both points of view and proposed that primate cognition in general was driven mainly by social competition, but beyond that the unique aspects of human cognition were driven by, or even constituted by, social cooperation.
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The evolution of human behavior has represented a major research area during the last decades (e.g., Hart 2018). Different interpretations have been proposed. Sometimes competition has been emphasized where other times, group collaborations had been considered critical in human survival (Campbell 2017). These two interpretations have been extensively discussed for a...
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Ardila, A. (2019). Vygotskian Intelligence Hypothesis, the (Moll Et Al., 2007). In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3102-1
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