Barron Andrew B

Jul 5, 2023 | royalsocietypublishing.org | Andrew Barron |Marta Halina |Colin Klein |Barron Andrew B

1. IntroductionThe evolution of animals' cognitive capacities, like that of any trait, was a mostly incremental affair [1,2]. Yet some authors have postulated a few larger qualitative jumps—one or more major transitions in cognitive evolution. Smith & Szathmáry's [3] work on major transitions in the history of life showed how changes in inheritance opened up phenotypic space in wholly novel ways.