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, in...

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1. Verfasser: Byrne, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 1995
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Zusammenfassung:"'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.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [235] - 245
Beschreibung:IX, 266 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:019852188X
0198522657

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