The Human Evolutionary Transition : : From Animal Intelligence to Culture /

The Human Evolutionary Transition : : From Animal Intelligence to Culture / / Johan Lind, Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Enquist, Magnus,
Ghirlanda, Stefano,
Lind, Johan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 48 b/w illus. 15 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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