The Human Evolutionary Transition From Animal Intelligence to Culture 1st Edition by Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda, Johan Lind ISBN 0691240760 9780691240763

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ISBN 10: 0691240760

ISBN 13: 978-0691240763

Author:  Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda, Johan Lind 

The Human Evolutionary Transition: From Animal Intelligence to Culture 1st Edition: 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 evolutionary paths to intelligence. This incisive book shows how animals rely on robust associative mechanisms that are guided by genetic information, which enable animals to sidestep complex problems in learning and decision making but ultimately limit what they can learn. Humans embody an evolutionary transition to a different kind of intelligence, one that relies on behavioral and mental flexibility. The book argues that flexibility is useless to most animals because they lack sufficient opportunities to learn new behavioral and mental skills. Humans find these opportunities in lengthy childhoods and through culture.

Blending the latest findings in fields ranging from psychology to evolutionary anthropology, The Human Evolutionary Transition draws on computational analyses of the problems organisms face, extensive overviews of empirical data on animal and human learning, and mathematical modeling and computer simulations of hypotheses about intelligence. This compelling book demonstrates that animal and human intelligence evolved from similar selection pressures while identifying bottlenecks in evolution that may explain why human-like intelligence is so rare.

 

The Human Evolutionary Transition: From Animal Intelligence to Culture 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. 1. Challenges to the Evolution of Intelligence
2. 2. Seven Hypotheses
3. 3. Learning Behavioral Sequences
4. 4. Genetic Guidance of Learning
5. 5. Sources of Information
6. 6. Social Learning
7. 7. Can Animals Think?
8. 8. The Nature of Animal Intelligence
9. 9. Uniquely Human
10. 10. The Transition
11. 11. How and Why Does Thinking Work?
12. 12. Acquisition and Transmission of Sequential Information
13. 13. Social Transmission of Mental Skills
14. 14. Cooperation
15. 15. The Power of Cultural Evolution
16. 16. Why Only Humans?

 

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