The evolution of human cleverness. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Hallam.
• Authors: Hallam, Richard S
• Contents: Introduction 1 Aims 2 Overview Essential themes 3 Proximate and ultimate causes 4 Adaptation and selection 5 Nature, nurture, and culture 6 Human uniqueness 7 Reasoning about the past 8 Is cleverness genetic? 9 Psychologies: Theories and methods Hominin ancestors 10 Hominin and primate relatives 11 Ancestral hominins 12 Bipedalism 13 Early Homo 14 Late Homo 15 Homo floresiensis 16 Who or what is Homo sapiens? 17 How clever were Neanderthals? 18 Behavioural modernity 19 Hominin life history 20 Family structure, pair bonding, and communal breeding Selection and transmission of traits 21 Genetic inheritance 22 Sexual selection 23 Group selection 24 Exaptation 25 Non-selectionist processes 26 Gene/culture co-evolution 27 Genes and hominin evolution. 28 The heritability of intelligence and cleverness Contentious theoretical issues 29 Personal and sub-personal explanations 30 Intentionality 31 Mentalism in evolutionary explanation 32 Cognitive science vs behavioural theory 33 Representation 34 Modularity 35 Two systems for controlling behaviour? 36 Recursion 37 The meaning of signs Comparing ourselves with other primates 38 Differences between ape and human communication 39 Primate gestures and the evolution of language 40 Perspective-taking in non-human primates 41 Social learning in non-human primates 42 Understanding the physical world 43 Pro-social behaviour and cooperation in non-human primates 44 Signing chimpanzees 45 Home-reared chimpanzees 46 Primate intelligence How did hominins evolve socially? 47 Self-awareness and identity 48 Social learning: Imitation 49 The social brain hypothesis 50 Cooperation 51 Social reciprocity 52 Perspective-taking in hominins 53 Displaced reference and pretend play 54 Self-domestication The brain 55 Brain size and early development 56 Brain evolution: Structure and function 57 Handedness 58 Mirror neuron system Learning from archaeology 59 Models in cognitive archaeology 60 What can stone-tools tell us? 61 Fire Language 62 The evolution of symbols 63 Protolanguage 64 Origins of language: fossil and DNA evidence 65 Origins of language: As communication 66 Origins of language: As faculty. Becoming complex and clever 67 Evolution of consciousness 68 The social self 69 Memory: Living in time 70 Working memory 71 Meta-cognition 72 Abstraction and analogy 73 Imagination and counterfactual thought 74 Agency: Getting it all together 75 The evolution of reasoning 76 Intelligence vs. applied intelligence 77 Framing behaviour functionally Putting it all together 78 The evolution of cleverness: Rival accounts. 79 Responding to evolution science 80 Infelicities and stupidity 81 Acting on evolution science References
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 153.9; Intellect; Cognition; Reasoning
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000584318; 9781000584295; 9781003165507
• Related ISBNs: 9780367760991; 9780367761035
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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