社会脑假说认为，人类大脑承担着适应环境的重大责任，尤其是在社会交往中负责对自我和他人的心理状态进行归因。

The hypothesis of social brain regard that human's brain play a crucial role to adapt to circumstances. especially to be responsible for the ascription of mental state of self and other.

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Holekamp博士说试验结果并没有支持“社会脑假说”中所提出的“复杂的社会群体可以促进大脑进化和提升解决问题的能力”理论。

Dr. Holekamp said that the result did not support an idea called the social brain hypothesis that living in complex social groups leads to increased relative brain size and problem solving ability.

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提出此假说的牛津大学人类学家及演化心理学家robin Dunbar声称，“社会脑假说”理论已经被发现无法在肉食动物身上应用。

But Robin Dunbar at the University of Oxford, the anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist who proposed the hypothesis, said it was already known that it did not apply to carnivores.

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