The neo-cortex, found only in mammals, developed to deal with parenthood and complex social interactions, Markram said.
This, in turn, should help explain complex social interactions seen in both rodents and people.In some cases the monogamous rodents will, no doubt, become promiscuous.
The female lust for meat, Dr. Shlain suggests, is responsible for the evolution of much of human behavior, including intimate relations between men and women, foresight and puzzle solving, complex social interactions, different psychological moods between men and women, and any number of human traits that we now see in the best and worst of us.
Re "Paternal Bonds, Special and Strange" (June 15): From a Darwinian perspective, it stands to reason that the more involved a father is in his child's life, the greater the child's chance of reaching adulthood and prospering, especially in species with complex social interactions.
Online social networking environments are sophisticated platforms connecting a large number of users and hence enabling complex social interactions.
For some autistic children who have trouble with complex social interactions, Minecraft is clearly a good fit with its lack of intricate social cues and simple environment.
For animals that swim over 40 miles a day in the wild and engage in complex social interaction with other dolphins, captive life in the entertainment industry is miserable.
It was implied that adolescence might be a critical period for maturation of the ability to process others' intentions in a complex social interaction.
This study also points out, that complex social interaction might be altered by laboratory conditions and therefore might only be fully understandable in a more natural context.
We have developed a general-purpose experimental chamber that can be used for studying the locomotor behavior of single flies, interactions between pairs of flies, and the complex social interaction of individual flies behaving within large groups.
