Check out the whole special issue of Philosophical Transactions B @royalsocietypublishing.org on ‘Selection shapes diverse animal minds’ chock-full of intriguing articles, and thanks to @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social‬ & @ellileadbeater.bsky.social‬ for organizing it!

We also applied a 'scaling ToM' approach from developmental science and found that - surprisingly - gaze following seemed to be the most 'difficult' task for monkeys to pass, and knowledge attribution the easiest (thanks to Henry Wellman for the suggestion!)

We found that rhesus and Barbary macaques are similarly successful at several metrics of social cognition, including gaze following, goal attribution & knowledge attribution, but rhesus are much bolder. This is despite major differences in their social behavior.

Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
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