Natures wonders: Social behavior of fish (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, May 28, 2015, 09:52 (3465 days ago) @ David Turell

“'The ball is in our court,” says evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford, UK, who developed the social brain theory. Dunbar now accepts that the evolution of large brains was not driven by the need to carry out single 'smart' behaviours such as cooperation or deception. But that doesn't mean the social brain theory has to be abandoned, he says — just refined. He and other primatologists now propose that primates evolved bigger brains because they needed an all-round high level of general intelligence to survive the pressures of living in tight social groups — for example, to recognize large numbers of individuals and remember their complicated genetic and hierarchical relationships."-Is it just me, or is this a case of a hypothesis being disproven, and instead of being abandoned, it was made so general that it can no longer be disproven.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.