Two competing philosophical paradigms characterize approaches to the evolution of the
human mind. One postulates continuity between animal and human behavioral capacities …

Abstract there are conspicuous species differences in what animals learn and how efficiently
they do so/to humans, it seems at 1st sight obvious that the species must differ in …

Although we share evolutionary history with other primates, examples of apparent cognitive
and behavioral discontinuity between humans and other species abound. Neuroanatomical …

What is the nature of the human mind and how did it arise? Does the evolution of the human
intellect represent an expansion of capacities already present in our animal predecessors as …

T he purpose of brain and mind is to allow the individual to attend to, process, and guide
behavioral responses to the types of information and conditions that have covaried with …

Despite decades of research that has revolutionized the neurosciences, efforts to explain the
major features of human brain evolution are still mostly based on superficial gross …

Homo sapiens is the most educable of species. We are not the only" learning species," of
course, but modern humans acquire skills and knowledge today that were unimaginable for …

Primates are, on average, more intelligent than other mammals, with great apes and finally
humans on top. They generally have larger brains and cortices, and because of higher …

Intelligence has evolved many times independently among vertebrates. Primates, elephants
and cetaceans are assumed to be more intelligent than 'lower'mammals, the great apes and …

The unusually large size of the human brain with respect to the human body as compared to
other mammals is a dominating fact in the study of human evolution. No account of the …