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Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Harry J. Jerison

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

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  2. Irene Jerison

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

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries G: (ASIG, volume 17)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  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
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About this book

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".

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Harry J. Jerison, Irene Jerison

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology

  • Editors: Harry J. Jerison, Irene Jerison

  • Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries G:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70877-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-70879-4Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-70877-0Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1256

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 481

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Zoology, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence

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