Sperm Whales
Subtitle: Social Evolution in the Ocean
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780226895178
Subjects: Evolution; Marine & freshwater mammals; Science; Animals; Science/Mathematics; General; Mammals; Science / General; Sperm whale
First sentence: Nicholas Humphrey's essay "The social function of intellect," from which this quote is taken, sparked the "Machiavellian intelligence" hypothesis, which proposes that sophisticated animal intelligence evolved as selection favored those animals that effectively exploited social complexity (Byrne and Whiten 1988).