Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans - Hardcover

Parker, Sue Taylor; McKinney, Michael L.

 
9780801860126: Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801860121 ISBN 13: 9780801860126
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801860121
ISBN 13 
9780801860126
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
404
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