Origins of Intelligence

The Evolution of Cognitve Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6671-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 691 g

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian) to study the evolution of intelligence across primate species. Their approach is comprehensive, covering a broad range of social, symbolic, physical, and logical domains, which fall under the all-encompassing and much-debated term intelligence.

A widely held theory among developmental psychologists and social and biological anthropologists is that cognitive evolution in humans has occurred through juvenilization—the gradual accentuation and lengthening of childhood in the evolutionary process. In this work, however, Parker and McKinney argue instead that new stages were added at the end of cognitive development in our hominid ancestors, coining the term adultification by terminal extension to explain this process.

Drawing evidence from scores of studies on monkeys, great apes, and human children, this book provides unique insights into ontogenetic constraints that have interacted with selective forces to shape the evolution of cognitive development in our lineage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Sue Taylor

McKinney, Michael L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN HUMAN AND NONHUMAN PRIMATES
Comparative Developmental Studies of Primate Cognition
Development of Physical Cognition in Children, Apes, and Monkeys
Development of Logical-Mathematical Cognition in Children, Apes, and Monkeys
Development of Social Cognition in Children, Apes, and Monkeys
Development of Language in Young Children and Apes
Comparing Primate Cognition across Domains: Integration or Isolation?
Cognitive Development in the Context of Life History
Part II. THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Development and Evolution: A Primer
The Evolution of Human Mental Development
Cognitive Adaptations of Apes and Humans
Comparing Adaptive Scenarios for Primate Cognition
The Evolution and Development of the Brain
Cognitive Complexity and Progress in Evolution
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McKinney, Michael L.
Michael L. McKinney is an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and author of several books, including Heterochrony.

Parker, Sue Taylor
Sue Taylor Parker is a professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Her works include "Language" and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes, Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, Reaching into Thought, and Naming Our Ancestors.

Sue Taylor Parker is a professor of anthropology at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Her works include "Language" and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes, Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, Reaching into Thought, and Naming Our Ancestors. Michael L. McKinney is an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and author of several books, including Heterochrony.