31 Suzanne Sadedin Greg Paperin 2009 Implications of the social brain hypothesis for evolving human-like cognition in digital organisms 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’09) Budapest Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13/09/2009 artificial intelligence, sociality, evolution, social selection, Machiavellian intelligence, ALife Data show that human-like cognitive traits do not evolve in animals through natural selection. Rather, human-like cognition evolves through runaway selection for social skills. Here, we discuss why social selection may be uniquely effective for promoting human-like cognition, and the conditions that facilitate it. These observations suggest future directions for artificial life research aimed at generating human-like cognition in digital organisms.