Marta Halina

Mar 7, 2024 | cambridge.org | Marta Halina

Nonhuman animals (hereafter animals) engage in sophisticated behaviors. New Caledonian crows construct novel compound tools (Reference von Bayern, Danel, Auersperg, Mioduszewska and Kacelnikvon Bayern et al. 2018), western scrub jays remember not only which food items they’ve cached but also where and when they’ve cached them (Reference Clayton, Griffiths, Emery and DickinsonClayton et al.

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.