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Reason is a really broad concept. If we're talking about an organism thinking about, understanding, and forming logical judgments, we can see that in species that are not human and thus have little to no communication as we understand it. I can't imagine two lemurs having an argument wherein one's use of superior reasoning wins the argument and gets the girl, thus increasing the likelihood of passing on those reasonable genes.
I've always thought of reason, as an evolutionary concept, as something which leads to survival by virtue of outsmarting a predator or finding more or better food or being better at mating rituals. The way the article reads, I imagine a long debate on a forum, and at the end the owner of the better argument gets laid.
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