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The Origin And Evolution Of Intelligence

, by Scheibel, Editor, Arnold B.; Schopf, Editor, J. William

The Origin And Evolution Of Intelligence by Scheibel, Editor, Arnold B.; Schopf, Editor, J. William, 9780763703653

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ISBN: 9780763703653 | 0763703656
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Copyright: 3/17/1997

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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.

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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