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	Machiavellian intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Machiavellian intelligence (political intelligence or social intelligence), is the capacity of an entity in successful political engagement with social groups.
		The capacity of non-humans to lie, blame, misdirect and mislead was demonstrated by orang-utans and gorillas during the 1980s and 1990s.
		One hypothesis is that they lack a "theory of mind" which is necessary for both cooperation and deceit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Machiavellian_intelligence (163 words)

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		Intelligence is the different way we get our food, and is our advantage, especially in times of climatic instability or extreme seasonal variation.
		Chimpanzees may seem to be a good evidence for the Machiavellian Intelligence hypothesis, but their close relatives bonobos do not.
		If the Machiavellian Intelligence hypothesis were true, then as soon as an older man began to slow up due to age or illness, he would be attacked by other males and replaced.
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	Machiavellian intelligence
		Machiavellian Intelligence (Political Intelligence or Social Intelligence), as part of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, refers to the capacity of an entity in successful political engagement with social groups.
		The term refers to Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince (1513), and refers to the hypothesis that the techniques which lead to certain kinds of political success[?] within large social groups[?] are also applicable within smaller groups, even within the family-unit.
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		In "Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans" (Oxford University Press, 1988) and "Machiavellian Intelligence II: Extensions and Evaluations" (Cambridge University Press, 1997), two scientists make a startling claim: Machiavellian behavior helped our early ancestors survive, and even drove the evolution of their brains.
		After all, Machiavellianism sometimes backfires: Its proponents may scheme and manipulate even when a show of submissiveness or an offer to share might more easily get them what they want, and they always run the risk of being found out and then sanctioned or expelled by their communities.
		As McHoskey notes, Machiavellians therefore do best in highly mobile societies, in which individuals are free to make their own fortunes and the expression of greed or self-interest is encouraged or at least accepted.
	www.salon.com /books/it/1999/09/13/machiavelli/print.html (1871 words)

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		However, since primate encephalization is primarily a result of increased neocortical size, and since intelligence and `higher' cognitive abilities are generally associated with neocortical function, the neocortex should be used as the relevant brain structure in studying the evolution of intelligence (Jerison 1973; Dunbar 1992; Passingham 1975; Sawaguchi 1989,1990,1991; Sawaguchi and Kudo 1990).
		The Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis is an extension of speculations, especially of Jolly (1966) and Humphrey (1988), about the almost unique complexity of primate social interactions.
		Despite various attempts to gauge differences in intelligence, not enough is known about the functioning and interconnections of areas within the brains of various species to allow for accurate measures of these differences.
	www.hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol2/Primate.html (5457 words)

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		Since creative intelligence requires many highly developed traits, and brain development and function requires exact co-ordination of many thousands of genes, the possession of creative is a reliable guide to good genetic quality and a desirable mate.
		The social nature of human intelligence is well described in the ‘Machiavellian intelligence’ volumes edited by Byrne and Whiten (1988) and Whiten and Byrne (1997).
		Byrne RW, Whiten A. Machiavellian intelligence: social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes and humans.
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		Byrne,Whiten -- Machiavellian intelligence: Social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes and humans -- 1988
		Machiavellian intelligence: social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes and humans.
		Byrne, Richard, and Whiten, A., (1988) Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes and Humans, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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		thological and evolutionary psychological research has produced evidence that intelligence is not a monolithic functional entity but includes a number of specialized mental abilities to cope with life which even stem from diverse evolutionary origins.
		One of these subforms of intelligence is called "Machiavellian intelligence," named after the 15/16th century Italian politician and author, Niccolo Machiavelli.
		Machiavellian intelligence can be observed and evaluated in bands of primates as well as in humans, and there are even tools for measurement in the latter.
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	Machiavellian intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, MachiavellianIntelligence (Political Intelligence or Social Intelligence), is the capacity of anentity in successful political engagement with social groups.
		The term refers to Niccolo Machiavelli 's The Prince (1513) and the hypothesis that the techniques which lead to certain kinds of political success within large social groups are also applicable within smaller groups, even within the family-unit.
		The capacity of non- humans to lie, blame, misdirect and mislead was demonstrated by orang-utans and gorillas during the 1980s and 1990s.
	www.therfcc.org /machiavellian-intelligence-50028.html (155 words)

	WorldNetDaily: CIA bureaucracy `Machiavellian`?
		His observations come amid a sea of criticism that the CIA, along with other U.S. intelligence agencies, are too unresponsive and poorly structured to have been able to respond quickly and accurately to threats, especially those on the level of the Sept. 11 attacks.
		For one, he said, intelligence reports are often substandard because redundant "levels of editorial review watered them down so much as to be useless." That process makes it impossible for appropriate government officials to make intelligent decisions, he said.
		Some of the "official secrecy that surrounds the intelligence community is legitimate and necessary when it comes to protecting intelligence sources and methods," he said.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27781 (1360 words)

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		In a society of Machiavellian psycho-analysts, individuals that are harder to predict and manipulate must have selective advantages.
		One rarely-examined assumption of the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis is that domain-specific social cognition (e.g.
		This hypothesis adds a new stage to the Machiavellian Intelligence model: here, the transition from monkeys to apes and early hominids may reflect the evolution of new social-competitive skills, but the transition from early hominids to modern humans represents the evolution of new courtship skills.
	www.unm.edu /~psych/faculty/protean_primates.htm (8577 words)

	Machiavellian Intelligence II - Cambridge University Press
		Machiavellian Intelligence Richard W. Byrne and Andrew Whiten; 2.
		Why Machiavellian Intelligence may not be Machiavellian Shirley C. Strum, Deborah Forster and Edwin Hutchins; 4.
		Social intelligence and success: don’t be too clever in order to be smart Alain Schmitt and Karl Grammer; 5.
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	Machiavellian Intelligence II - Andrew Whiten, Richard W. Byrne
		Machiavellian Intelligence II - Andrew Whiten, Richard W. Byrne
		This book aims to explain the intelligence of monkeys and apes, and the huge brain expansion that marked human evolution.
		In 1988, Machiavellian Intelligence was the first book to assemble the early evidence suggesting a new answer: that the evolution of intellect was primarily driven by selection for manipulative, social expertise within groups where the most challenging problem faced by individuals was dealing with their companions.
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		To be familiar with the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis of the evolution of intelligence.
		Co-operation improved ability to acquire food tool use agriculture domestication Higher Level Theories Tool use Machiavellian intelligence Social intelligence and manipulation Specific Theories to explain the evolution of intelligence the ability to use tools was the spur for the evolution of intelligence.
		Current thinking favours the ‘Machiavellian Intelligence’ hypothesis, although recently some theorists have attributed a causal role to both factors in the evolution of human intelligence.
	www.gre.ac.uk /~wr17/Lecture_Notes/Evolution/Intelligence.doc (453 words)

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		Collected as a self-conscious extension of the 1988 work edited by Byrne and Whiten, "Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans," this volume contains 14 articles.
		The contributions in this volume tend to limit the grosser conclusions of the earlier work while refining the Machiavellian intelligence concept more precisely.
		My advice is to skip this book and go straight to Sternberg and Kaufman's collection "The Evolution of Human Intelligence" (2001) or Corballis and Lea's "The Descent of Mind" (1999).
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	Evolutionary Psychology
		Additionally, there are a number of (quite good) arguments that, since they rarely hear adults speaking proper grammatical sentences in everyday life, the 'data' that children have to go on in constructing their grammatical plans are insufficiently specified as to allow them to 'learn' the rules.
		Therefore, children must come with a built-in, innate plan that is common to any language they might encounter, and this guides how they deal with what they experience, enabling them to construct the grammar of the language used in their particular community.
		Jolly's and Humphries' key hypothesis was that primate intelligence evolved as an adaptive response to the most important things in any primate’s environment: other primates.
	evolution.massey.ac.nz /lecture6/lect600.htm (4487 words)

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		Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans (Oxford Science Publications)
		The editors contend that the competitive nature of social group living provided the primary impetus driving the evolutionary development of monkey, ape, and human intelligence.
		For example, Sternberg and Kaufman's collection "The Evolution of Human Intelligence" (2001) or Corballis and Lea's "The Descent of Mind" (1999) may be a much better starting places for a review of more contemporary work.
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		Intelligence, term usually referring to a general mental capability to reason, solve problems, think abstractly, learn and understand new material,...
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		This book explores the theory that the driving force behind the human intellect was social expertise, allowing subtle manipulation of others within the social group, who themselves are seen as posing the most challenging problems faced by our ancestors.
		Included also is an evaluation of more traditional ideas and to what extent Machiavellian intelligence is complementary or alternative to them.
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		Some theorists believe that (Click link for more info and facts about autistic) autistic people lack Machiavellian intelligence.
		One hypothesis is that they lack a " (Click link for more info and facts about theory of mind) theory of mind" which is necessary for both cooperation and deceit.
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		At the same time, he also try to diminish the importance of consciousness, even questioning if there is such thing as a conscious cognition and intelligence, narrowing the importance of consciousness to merely an observing role.
		With the conscious mind being dumbed down, the detection of deception also had to move underground, to be handled by the same "Machiavellian module" that engaged in deception.
		Below the surface, people's Machiavellian modules understand the hidden messages, and have a coded conversation with each other, the meaning of which remains hidden even from their conscious minds.
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		Erdal D, Whiten A. Egalitarianism and Machiavellian Intelligence in Human Evolution.
		Individuals do sometimes attempt to obtain a disproportionate share of resources or influence for themselves, but his is contained through vigilance and counter-dominant behaviour by their group members.
		We propose a model of human social evolution in which ancestral apes' Machiavellian tactics spiraled close to, but were intrinsically unable to settle at, a ceiling at which egalitarianism becomes the only viable strategy.
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	The Lemur's Tale - Story-Telling in Primates and Other Socially Intelligent Agents - Dautenhahn (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Abstract: This paper addresses the relationship between social intelligence and narrative intelligence, with a particular emphasis on 1) the phylogenetic origins of primate (narrative) intelligence, and 2) the ontogenetic origin of autobiographical stories.
		The `Narrative Intelligence Hypothesis` (NIH) is introduced according to which the evolutionary origin of stories and narrativity was correlated with increasing social dynamics in primate societies, in particular the need to communicate about...
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