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The correlated evolution of social competence and social cognition

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dc.contributor.authorVarela, Susana A. M.
dc.contributor.authorTeles, Magda C
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Rui Filipe
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-24T16:35:55Z
dc.date.available2020-03-24T16:35:55Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstract1. Knowing which of correlated traits are more strongly targeted by selection is crucial to understand the evolutionary process. For example, it could help in understanding how behavioural and cognitive adaptations to social living have evolved. 2. Social competence is the ability of animals to optimize their social behaviours according to the demands of their social environment. It is a behavioural performance trait that expresses how well a whole organism performs complex social tasks, such as choosing mates, raising offspring, participating in dominance hierarchies, solving conflicts or forming social bonds. Non‐social competence, on the other hand, is the ability of animals to optimize their non‐social behaviours according to the demands of their non‐social environment, such as finding food or avoiding predators. 3. Social and non‐social cognition are correlated lower‐level traits of social and nonsocial competence, respectively, encompassing the underlying psychological and neural mechanisms of behaviour that allow animals to acquire, encode, store and recall information about their social and non‐social environments. 4. Here, we employ the theoretical framework that selection acts on performance traits first and on lower‐level traits only secondarily, to propose a new approach to the study of the evolution of social cognition. 5. We hypothesize that when selection favours social competence, the cognitive system becomes more adapted to the social domain, making species biased for social information, and increasing their degree of sociality. The opposite can happen when selection favours non‐social competence. 6. The level of specialization that the cognitive system can attain depends on whether social and non‐social competence are correlated with the same cognitive lower‐level traits. This in turn will determine whether species will evolve a type of social cognition that is general—that contributes with cognitive abilities that can be used in both social and non‐social environments—or modular—that contributes with cognitive abilities that are specific to the social environment.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCTpt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationFunctional Ecology, 34(2) 332-343pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1365-2435.13416pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn02698463
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/7482
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relationSFRH/ BPD/121953/2016pt_PT
dc.relationThe social fly: genetic architecture for social learning neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectEnvironmental complexitypt_PT
dc.subjectEvolutionpt_PT
dc.subjectModular versus general intelligencept_PT
dc.subjectPerformance selectionpt_PT
dc.subjectSocial brainpt_PT
dc.subjectSocial intelligencept_PT
dc.subjectSocial learningpt_PT
dc.subjectWhole‐organism performancept_PT
dc.titleThe correlated evolution of social competence and social cognitionpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.awardTitleThe social fly: genetic architecture for social learning neural circuits in Drosophila melanogaster.
oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FBIA-ANM%2F0810%2F2014/PT
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceUnited Kingdompt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage343pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage332pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleFunctional Ecologypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume34pt_PT
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person.familyNameTeles
person.givenNameMagda C
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project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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