The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence"'Intelligence' has long been considered to be a feature unique to human beings, giving us the capacity to imagine, to think, to deceive, to make complex connections between cause and effect, to devise elaborate strategies for solving problems. However, like all our other features, intelligence is a product of evolutionary change. Until recently, it was difficult to obtain evidence of this process from the frail testimony of a few bones and stone tools. It has become clear in the last 15 years that the origins of human intelligence can be investigated by the comparative study of primates, our closest non-human relatives, giving strong impetus to the case for an 'evolutionary psychology', the scientific study of the origins of the mind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... suggested to be an unlucky and temporary set - back . That view may be optimistic . Hominids were not marine animals , whose bodies would be more likely to fossilize ; the fossil record of ancestors of any particular current terrestrial ...
... suggested to be an unlucky and temporary set - back . That view may be optimistic . Hominids were not marine animals , whose bodies would be more likely to fossilize ; the fossil record of ancestors of any particular current terrestrial ...
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... suggested , but this conflicts with the established usage of hominids for bipedal , walking pri- mates ) , but the English label ' African great apes ' is fine for the present , if modern humans originated in Africa . ( This clever ...
... suggested , but this conflicts with the established usage of hominids for bipedal , walking pri- mates ) , but the English label ' African great apes ' is fine for the present , if modern humans originated in Africa . ( This clever ...
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... suggest that they ( like humans ) are able mentally to simulate actions . To the extent that great apes can select or make ... suggested that humans can solve certain non - computable problems . Some of his examples are hard for non ...
... suggest that they ( like humans ) are able mentally to simulate actions . To the extent that great apes can select or make ... suggested that humans can solve certain non - computable problems . Some of his examples are hard for non ...
Contents
the limits of fossil evidence | 3 |
developmental and cognitive ideas | 40 |
How animals learn | 46 |
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