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From a functional standpoint, wanting and knowing are the two most fundamental themes in the evolution of behavior. The evolutionary changes that have occurred in the processes subserving wanting and knowing provide the distinguishing features of intelligence and are the source of interest in intelligence as a biological phenomenon. Our knowledge of primate intelligence is mainly based on laboratory studies of the problem-solving behavior of individual animals. Early experimental efforts to investigate social intelligence adopted the same experimental format. The upsurge of primate field studies in the nineteen sixties and the availability of stable captive groups in outdoor enclosures helped to change our perspective toward primate social intelligence, and underscored the need to consider more complex situations than those dealt with in earlier studies. Developing the empirical and conceptual tools to respond to this need is a major task for contemporary research on social intelligence.
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Mason, W.A. (1982). Primate Social Intelligence: Contributions from the Laboratory. In: Griffin, D.R. (eds) Animal Mind — Human Mind. Life Sciences Research Reports, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68469-2_8
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