Editing Evolutionary neuroscience (section)

=== Cognitive specializations ===
Evolution shows how certain environments and surroundings will favor the development of specific cognitive functions of the brain to aid an animal or in this case human to successfully live in that environment.

Cognitive specialization in a theory in which cognitive functions, such as the ability to communicate socially, can be passed down genetically through offspring. This would benefit species in the process of natural selection. As for studying this in relation to the human brain, it has been theorized that very specific social skills apart from language, such as trust, vulnerability, navigation, and self-awareness can also be passed by offspring.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baron-Cohen |first1=S. |author1-link=Simon Baron-Cohen |last2=Leslie |first2=Alan M. |last3=Frith |first3=Uta |date=October 1985 |title=Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind" ? |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277%2885%2990022-8 |journal=[[Cognition (journal)|Cognition]] |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=37–46 |doi=10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8 |pmid=2934210 |s2cid=14955234 |issn=0010-0277 |lang=en |url-access=subscription }}</ref>