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9780763703653

The Origin And Evolution Of Intelligence

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    9780763703653

  • ISBN10:

    0763703656

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-03-17
  • Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

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Summary

What is intelligence? From where did it come? Will the human brain grow and adapt To The ever-changing world? These and many other questions are addressed in the Origin and Evolution of Intelligence. This volume is composed of a series of articles presented on the origin and evolution of intelligence in March 1995 at the Eighth Annual Symposium of the UCLA Center For The Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life (CSEOL). The six authors of the contributions to this volume discuss in detail an enormous span of invertebrate and vertebrate life forms and wrestle with a vast array of problems ranging from direction finding in ants and birds to sociopolitical communication in monkeys, symbol manipulation in apes, and language use in humans. All these phenomena may be grouped under the general term intelligence, The unifying theme of the volume.

Table of Contents

PREFACE ix(2)
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES xi(4)
INTRODUCTION xv
CHAPTER 1 PRERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE -- HOW INSECTS AND BIRDS FIND THEIR WAY
1(26)
Rudiger Wehner
SMALL-SCALE NAVIGATION -- THE INSECT FORAGER
2(9)
Reading Skylight Patterns -- A Simplified Model of the Outside World
4(4)
Exploiting Landmark Panoramas -- Maps in Insect Minds?
8(3)
Systematic Search -- The Last Resort
11(1)
LARGE-SCALE NAVIGATION -- THE AVIAN MIGRANT
11(11)
Vector Routes -- Preordained Spatial Knowledge
11(2)
Orthodromes and Loxodromes -- What Else?
13(9)
THE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE NAVIGATOR'S MIND
22(2)
FURTHER READING
24(3)
CHAPTER 2 COMMUNICATION AND THE MINDS OF MONKEYS
27(16)
Robert M. Seyfarth
Dorothy L. Cheney
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE HUMAN MIND?
27(1)
SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
28(3)
THE ATTRIBUTION OF MENTAL STATES
31(6)
Grunts That Appease and Reconcile
31(4)
Other Species
35(1)
Contact Barks of Baboons
36(1)
NONHUMAN PRIMATE VOCALIZATIONS AND HUMAN LANGUAGE -- SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
37(3)
REFERENCES
40(3)
CHAPTER 3 WHY ARE WE AFRAID OF APES WITH LANGUAGE?
43(28)
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
ANIMAL MINDS VERSUS HUMAN MINDS
43(5)
The "Holy Grail" of Grammar
47(1)
WASHOE -- THE FIRST APE TO "SPEAK"
48(6)
Language Is a Two-Way Street
49(1)
Apes Learn to Listen
50(4)
LANGUAGE IS NOT IN THE MIND -- IT IS IN INTERACTION
54(1)
KANZI -- LEARNING LANGUAGE WITHOUT BEING TAUGHT
55(8)
Realizing That Others "Think"
57(6)
WINDOWS TO THE MINDS OF OTHERS
63(1)
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
63(5)
REFERENCES
68(1)
FURTHER READING
69(2)
CHAPTER 4 THE MODULAR NATURE OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
71(32)
Leda Cosmides
John Tooby
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
71(1)
DEBAUCHING THE MIND -- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY'S PAST AND PRESENT
72(2)
THE STANDARD SOCIAL SCIENCE MODEL
74(1)
BACK TO BASICS -- FIVE BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
75(11)
Principle 1
76(1)
Principle 2
76(3)
Principle 3
79(1)
Principle 4
80(4)
Principle 5
84(2)
UNDERSTANDING THE DESIGN OF ORGANISMS
86(13)
Adaptationist Logic and Evolutionary Psychology
86(3)
Nature and Nurture -- An Adaptationist Perspective
89(4)
Reasoning Instincts -- An Example
93(6)
Acknowledgments
99(1)
REFERENCES
99(2)
FURTHER READING
101(2)
CHAPTER 5 EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENCE -- BEYOND THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN
103(34)
Terrence W. Deacon
THE PERSISTENCE OF TOP-DOWN EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY
103(3)
THE ONTOGENETIC INFORMATION BOTTLENECK
106(3)
DARWINIAN PHYSIOLOGY
109(1)
COMPLICATIONS OF ORGANISM DESIGN
110(1)
BRAINS ADAPT TO BODIES
111(5)
BRAIN TRANSPLANTS
116(4)
HOW FLY GENES BUILD MAMMAL BRAINS
120(5)
WHAT MAKES HUMAN BRAINS HUMAN?
125(2)
EVOLUTION TURNED INSIDE OUT
127(4)
THE EXPERIENCE OF INTELLIGENCE
131(1)
A FINAL NOTE
132(1)
REFERENCES
133(4)
CHAPTER 6 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
137(24)
Steven Pinker
IN BIOLOGY UNIQUENESS IS COMMON
137(1)
COULD LANGUAGE BE UNIQUE TO HUMANS?
138(7)
Do Chimpanzees Have Language?
139(1)
Bushes and Ladders -- The Phylogeny of Language
140(4)
Analogy Versus Homology in Evolution
144(1)
CAN NEW MODULES EVOLVE?
145(1)
ARE CHIMPS AND HUMANS 99% ALIKE?
146(1)
DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE BY NATURAL SELECTION?
147(6)
The Nature of Natural Selection
147(1)
Is Natural Selection a Circular Theory?
148(1)
Alternatives to Natural Selection
149(1)
Evolutionary Origins of Complex Design
150(2)
What About Language?
152(1)
COULD LANGUAGE HAVE EVOLVED GRADUALLY?
153(3)
Three Questions to Answer
154(2)
The Origins of Grammar
156(1)
FROM SO SIMPLE A BEGINNING, FORMS BEAUTIFUL HAVE EVOLVED
156(1)
Acknowledgments
157(1)
REFERENCES
157(4)
GLOSSARY 161(4)
SUBJECT INDEX 165

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