Projektnummer

0053318

Zusammenfassung

Humans are social creatures maintaining shared complex systems of communication, skills and knowledge. Human sociality appears to be unique throughout the animal kingdom in its complexity as well as its impact on the lifestyle and environment of the species.Indeed, human sociality forms such an exception amongst animal behaviours that it has often been used to define what it means to "be human". Underlying human social interactions is a conglomerate of cognitive abilities often summarized as social cognition. The main goal of this research project is the reconstruction of the evolution...