Title The evolution of cognition / edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000 ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 386 pages) : illustrations Series Vienna series in theoretical biology Vienna series in theoretical biology. Contents Evolutionary psychology in the round / Cecilia Heyes -- Psychophylogenesis: innovations and limitations in the evolution of cognition / Ludwig Huber -- Modularity and the evolution of cognition / Sara Shettleworth -- Cognitive evolution: a psychological perspective / M.E. Bitterman -- What must be known in order to understand imprinting? / Patrick Bateson -- Stimulus equivalencies through discrimination reversals / Juan D. Delius, Masako Jitsumori and Martina Siemann -- Abstraction and discrimination / Nicholas J. Mackintosh -- Primate worlds / Kim Sterelny -- Two hypotheses about primate cognition / Michael Tomasello -- Causal cognition and goal-directed action / Anthony Dickinson and Bernard W. Balleine -- Causal reasoning, mental rehearsal, and the evolution of primate cognition / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Cause-effect reasoning in humans and animals / Duane M. Rumbaugh, Michael J. Beran and William A. Hillix -- The privatization of sensation / Nicholas Humphrey -- The search for a mental Rubicon / Euan M. Macphail -- Declarative and episodic-like memory in animals: personal musings of a scrub jay / Nicola S. Clayton, D.P. Griffiths and Anthony Dickinson -- Testing insight in ravens / Bernd Heinrich -- Feeding innovations and their cultural transmission in bird populations / Louis Lefebvre -- Climate, culture, and the evolution of cognition / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Goss Summary In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a debate about how evolutionary processes have shaped cognition. The debate is divided into five sections: Orientations, on the phylogenetic, ecological, and psychological/comparative approaches to the evolution of cognition; Categorization, on how various animals parse their environments, how they represent objects and events and the relations among them; Causality, on whether and in what ways nonhuman animals represent cause and effect relationships; Consciousness, on whether it makes sense to talk about the evolution of consciousness and whether the phenomenon can be investigated empirically in nonhuman animals; and Culture, on the cognitive requirements for nongenetic transmission of information and the evolutionary consequences of such cultural exchange. Contributors : Bernard Balleine, Patrick Bateson, Michael J. Beran, M.E. Bitterman, Robert Boyd, Nicola Clayton, Juan Delius, Anthony Dickinson, Robin Dunbar, D.P. Griffiths, Bernd Heinrich, Cecilia Heyes, William A. Hillix, Ludwig Huber, Nicholas Humphrey, Masako Jitsumori, Louis Lefebvre, Nicholas Mackintosh, Euan M. Macphail, Peter Richerson, Duane M. Rumbaugh, Sara Shettleworth, Martina Siemann, Kim Sterelny, Michael Tomasello, Laura Weiser, Alexandra Wells, Carolyn Wilczynski, David Sloan Wilson Notes "A Bradford book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Genetic psychology. Psychology, Comparative. Adaptability (Psychology) Evolution (Biology) Cognition. Human information processing. Adaptation, Psychological Biological Evolution Cognition Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Genetic Phenomena Mental Processes Biological Phenomena Psychiatry and Psychology Psychological Phenomena and Processes Phenomena and Processes Psychology, Comparative evolution. cognition. PSYCHOLOGY -- General. Human information processing Evolution (Biology) Cognition Adaptability (Psychology) Genetic psychology Psychology, Comparative Cognitie. Evolutie. Form Electronic book Author Heyes, Cecilia M. Huber, Ludwig, 1950- LC no. 99046217 ISBN 0585368902 9780585368900 9780262275330 0262275333 0262526964 9780262526968 0262082861 9780262082860

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