Big brain: the origins and future of human intelligence
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
1 Big
Brains, Bigger Brains
1
Who were the BoskopsfAre big brains better?Is language
special? Were Boskops smarter? Where did they go?
Introduction
1
Biggest Brain
3
Are Bigger Brains Better?
5
Brain and Language
7
Were Boskops Smarter?
8
Why Haven t We All Heard of Boskops?
10
Outline of the Book
11
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The Mind in the Machine
17
How can brains be understood computationally?
What are the differences between brains and computers?
Can we make computers like brains?
Learning Network Codes
18
Brain Circuits vs. Computer Circuits
23
The Brain of John
Von
Neumann
25
3
Genes Build Brains
33
How did we evolve? How does evolution act on genes?
How do genetic rules and modules constrain evolutionary
variation?
How Much Variation Can Occur?
36
Blueprint Systems
38
vi CONTENTS
Bundling Genes
40
Variation Is Random, but It Is Constrained
44
4
Brains Arrive
51
What is the machinery of brains? Where did brains begin?
How did brains change as they expanded?
First Brains
52
Brain Expansion
58
5
The Brains of Mammals
63
What are cortical circuits and how are they different from
older circuits?How do cortical connections change during
learning?
Neurons and Networks
65
Learning
70
6
From
Olfaction
to Cognition
73
What are the other primary brain circuits? How do they
and the cortex interact?
From Cortex to Behavior
80
Neocortex
84
7
The Thinking Brain
89
How does brain structure change with size? How does
the expanded association cortex take control?
Extending Thinking over Time
93
The Cortex Takes Charge
96
8
The Tools of Thought
99
What primary processes emerge from mammalian brain
operation?How can we understand these processes as
mental steps? What do these mechanisms say about the
way we think? What new abilities arise as brains grow?
Feedback and Hierarchies of Cortical
Circuits
99
CONTENTS
vii
Sequences
106
What One Brain Area Tells Another Brain Area
107
What s in an Image?
108
Putting It Together: From Generalists to Specialists
109
Memory Construction
110
Building High-level Cognition
113
Libraries and Labyrinths
114
Grammars of the Brain
116
9
From Brain Differences to Individual
Differences
119
How do individuals brains differ from each other?
What brain differences show up as behavioral differences?
How do brains change with experience?
Brain Paths
122
Brain Tracts and Differential Abilities
125
Nature and Nurture
127
10
What s in a Species?
129
How do individual members of different species differ?
What are separate and interbreeding gene pooh?
How do these give rise to the notion of races?
Definitions
131
Fallacies of the Notion of Race
132
Races Versus Gene Pools
135
11
The Origins of Big Brains
139
How do brains change as they grow? What were the
brains of our early ancestors like? What adaptations
may have affected the path of brain evolution?
Brain Size in the Primates
141
Brain Size in the Family of Man
145
Big Babies
154
On Intelligence
157
viii CONTENTS
12
Giant Brains
161
Who were the Boskops?How were they discovered,
and how were they forgotten?
The Man of the Future
162
How Giant Brains Were Forgotten
165
Inside the Giant Brain
171
Giant Brains and Intelligence
175
13
All but Human
179
What is shared in big brains? What is unique about
human brains?Might other big-brained creatures have
intelligence ana language?
On Science
179
Differences
182
From Quantity to Quality
189
From Brain Advances to Cognitive Advances
191
From Cognition to Language
193
Learning Curve
195
From Speaking to Writing
197
14
More than Human
201
What is it like to have a big brain?How do our brains
render us human, and how might out brains be changed
in the future?
Brain and Superbrain
201
New Paths, New Humans
204
The Final Path to Humans
205
Inconstant Brain
209
Next Steps
211
Coda
214
Appendix
217
Acknowledgments
233
Bibliography
235
Index
255
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