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Transitions in cognitive evolution

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By Andrew Barron, Marta Halina, Colin Klein, Barron Andrew B
| royalsocietypublishing.org
1. Introduction The evolution of animals' cognitive capacities, like that of any trait, was a mostly incremental affair [1,2]. Yet some authors have postulated a few larger qualitative jumps—one or more major transitions in cognitive evolution. Smith & Szathmáry's [3] work on major transitions in the history of life showed how changes in inheritance opened up phenotypic space in wholly novel ways.
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