Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Evolutionary Biology of Intelligence: The Nature of the Problem

   • Harry J. Jerison

   Pages 1-11

3. Intelligence and Natural Selection

   • Michael Ruse

   Pages 13-33

4. The Conceptual Role of Intelligence in Human Sociobiology

   • Paul Thompson

   Pages 35-44

5. Artificial Intelligence and Biological Intelligence

   • Margaret A. Boden

   Pages 45-71

6. An Evolutionary Epistemological Approach to the Evolution of Intelligence

   • H. C. Plotkin

   Pages 73-91

7. Comparative Neuroanatomy and the Evolution of Intelligence

   • William Hodos

   Pages 93-107

8. The Forebrain as a Playground of Mammalian Evolution

   • H.-P. Lipp

   Pages 109-118

9. Comparing the Structure of Brains: Implications for Behavioral Homologies

   • A. Fasolo, G. Malacarne

   Pages 119-141

10. Language, Intelligence, and Rule-Governed Behavior

    • Philip Lieberman

    Pages 143-156

11. The Evolution of Human Cerebral Asymmetry

    • Jerre Levy

    Pages 157-173

12. The Evolution of Intelligence: A Palaeontological Perspective

    • Martin Pickford

    Pages 175-198

13. Allometric Analysis and Brain Size

    • Paul H. Harvey

    Pages 199-210

14. Mammalian Domestication and its Effect on Brain Structure and Behavior

    • Dieter Kruska

    Pages 211-250

15. Vertebrate-Invertebrate Comparisons

    • M. E. Bitterman

    Pages 251-276

16. Species-Specific Differences in Learning

    • Marco D. Poli

    Pages 277-297

17. Contribution of the Genetical and Neural Memory to Animal Intelligence

    • V. Csanyi

    Pages 299-318

18. Animal Language Research: Marine Mammals Re-Enter the Controversy

    • Ronald J. Schusterman, Robert Gisiner

    Pages 319-350

19. Basic Processes in Human Intelligence

    • Ian J. Deary

    Pages 351-362

20. Human Brain Evolution: I. Evolution of Language Circuits

    • Terrence W. Deacon

    Pages 363-381

In evolutionary biology, "intelligence" must be defined in terms of traits that are subject to the major forces of organic evolution. Accordingly, this volume is concerned with the substantive questions that are relevant to the evolutionary problem. Comparisons of learning abilities are highlighted by a detailed report on similarities between honeybees and higher vertebrates. Several chapters are concerned with the evolution of cerebral lateralization and the control of language, and recent analyses of the evolution of encephalization and neocorticalization, including a review of effects of domestication on brain size are presented. The relationship between brain size and intelligence is debated vigorously. Most unusual, however, is the persistent concern with analytic and philosophical issues that arise in the study of this topic, from the applications of new developments on artificial intelligence as a source of cognitive theory, to the recognition of the evolutionary process itself as a theory of knowledge in "evolutionary epistemology".

• Mammalia
• anatomy
• artificial intelligence
• behavior
• cognition
• control
• epistemology
• evolution
• evolutionary biology
• information processing
• intelligence
• knowledge
• learning
• memory
• theory of knowledge

• Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Harry J. Jerison, Irene Jerison

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