The human evolutionary transition : from animal intelligence to culture /

"A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other species. The Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evoluti...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteurs: Enquist, Magnus (Auteur), Ghirlanda, Stefano, 1972- (Auteur), Lind, Johan (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2vzdgq0
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 1 Challenges to the Evolution of Intelligence
  • 2 Seven Hypotheses
  • 3 Learning Behavioral Sequences
  • 4 Genetic Guidance of Learning
  • 5 Sources of Information
  • 6 Social Learning
  • 7 Can Animals Think?
  • 8 The Nature of Animal Intelligence
  • 9 Uniquely Human
  • 10 The Transition
  • 11 How and Why Does Thinking Work?
  • 12 Acquisition and Transmission of Sequential Information
  • 13 Social Transmission of Mental Skills
  • 14 Cooperation
  • 15 The Power of Cultural Evolution
  • 16 Why Only Humans?