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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship
Modern Wisdom
Primate Cognition Skills
In primate is a whole bunch of kind of high level but not quite so high levels the other two cognition skills which are generally wrapped in as a general thing known as executive function skills. One thing that primates do which nobody else can do it's unique to the anthropoid primates and depends principally on one trial learning. Because they have the capacity for more mental processing they are able to extrapolate out from a single event more effectively okay. The population just exploded after the ice age and the reason they've exploded or in retrospect we kind of realize now is it only exploded in this very narrow latitudinal band what's known as the subtropical zone. It lies above the tropics
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