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The capacity to evaluate and choose prospective partners may have played a crucial role in the evolution of uniquely human forms of cooperation and morality. In an environment that affords opportunities for mutualistic interactions, it is beneficial to select good partners and be chosen by others, as working together for a common aim can yield benefits for all those involved.

1 CORE KNOWLEDGE: A CASE STUDY According to the core knowledge hypothesis (Spelke, 2022), many species start off with several clusters of interconnected abstract concepts, which allow their members to learn relevant aspects of the environment quickly and efficiently.

Open AccessResearch articles Abstract Young learners would seem to face a daunting challenge in selecting to what they should attend, a problem that may have been exacerbated in human infants by changes in carrying practices during human evolution. A novel theory proposes that human infant cognition has an altercentric bias whereby early in life, infants prioritize encoding events that are the targets of others’ attention.