The Human Evolutionary Transition : From Animal Intelligence to Culture /

A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe 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 evolutionary pa...

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Autores principales: Enquist, Magnus (Autor), Ghirlanda, Stefano (Autor), Lind, Johan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Temas:
SCIENCE / Cognitive Science.
Activation.
Adaptation.
Anatomically modern human.
Animal cognition.
Approach Behavior.
Backtracking.
Behavior.
Behavioral modernity.
Biology.
Cellular differentiation.
Cognition.
Cognitive Psychology.
Cognitive architecture.
Cognitive revolution.
Cognitive test.
Combinatorial explosion.
Comparative psychology.
Computer.
Conceptual framework.
Cost-effectiveness analysis.
Cultural evolution.
Cultural history.
Decision-making.
Developmental psychology.
Dimension.
Dynamical system.
Early childhood.
Ecological niche.
Emergence.
Energy consumption.
Episodic-like memory.
Ethology.
Evolution of human intelligence.
Evolution.
Evolutionary biology.
Evolutionary dynamics.
Evolutionary psychology.
Explanatory power.
Forward chaining.
Genetic divergence.
Genre.
Gopnik.
Governance.
Hominidae.
Human behavior.
Human evolution (origins of society and culture).
Human evolution.
Implementation.
Inference.
Information processing.
Institution.
Invention.
Jay.
Language acquisition.
Language.
Learning curve.
Learning.
Life.
Mass production.
Mating.
Mental process.
Modern Studies.
Observational learning.
Obstacle.
Order of acquisition.
Organism.
Outsourcing.
Ownership (psychology).
Perception.
Perceptual learning.
Philosophical theory.
Planning.
Population genetics.
Probability.
Programming language.
Prokaryote.
Reality.
Reinforcement.
Result.
Sample Size.
Scientific notation.
Sensory processing.
Skill.
Social environment.
Social intelligence.
Social learning theory.
Socialism.
Sociocultural evolution.
Stimulus (physiology).
Suggestion.
Summation.
Supercomputer.
Symbol.
Symbolic language (engineering).
Symbolic system.
The Major Transitions in Evolution.
Thought.
Tool Use Behavior.
Trait theory.
Zone of proximal development.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 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?
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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