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The Human Evolutionary Transition - From Animal Intelligence to Culture (Hardcover)
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The Human Evolutionary Transition - From Animal Intelligence to Culture (Hardcover)
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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.
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