Perhaps the ability to recognize individuals isn’t as tied to being a social animal as I had thought
I expect multiple sources of evolutionary pressure for recognizing individuals. E.g. when a human chases an animal to exhaustion, the human needs to track that specific animal even if it disappears into a herd, so as to not make the mistake of chasing an animal that isn’t tired.
I expect multiple sources of evolutionary pressure for recognizing individuals. E.g. when a human chases an animal to exhaustion, the human needs to track that specific animal even if it disappears into a herd, so as to not make the mistake of chasing an animal that isn’t tired.