Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for
a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In
"Origins of Intelligence, " Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer
such a framework and make a strong case for using human development
theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian) to study the evolution of
intelligence across primate species. Their approach is
comprehensive, covering a broad range of social, symbolic,
physical, and logical domains, which fall under the
all-encompassing and much-debated term "intelligence."
A widely held theory among developmental psychologists and
social and biological anthropologists is that cognitive evolution
in humans has occurred through juvenilization--the gradual
accentuation and lengthening of childhood in the evolutionary
process. In this work, however, Parker and McKinney argue instead
that new stages were added at the end of cognitive development in
our hominid ancestors, coining the term "adultification by terminal
extension" to explain this process.
Drawing evidence from scores of studies on monkeys, great apes,
and human children, this book provides unique insights into
ontogenetic constraints that have interacted with selective forces
to shape the evolution of cognitive development in our lineage.
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