Human Intelligence, Child Rearing and r/K Selection Theory

1300 words In a paper titled Extraordinary intelligence and the care of infants, Piantadosi and Kidd (2016) add to the other hypotheses of higher cognition in humans (Cold Winter Theory and farming) by positing higher cognition evolved to better take care of offspring. Their theory is that big brained parents have big brained children, with the big … Continue reading Human Intelligence, Child Rearing and r/K Selection Theory