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

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

Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys,
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Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans Paperback - 2000

by Parker, Prof Sue Taylor

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The author offers a framework for comparing cognition in humans and non-human primates. She draws on various versions of human development theory to study the evolution of intelligence across primate species.

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The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-10-19. Paperback. Good. 404p. Reading creases at spine; light wear to edges. Notes and underlining through text; otherwise clean. Sound binding. Size: 8vo. Year: 1999.
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  • Title Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
  • Author Parker, Prof Sue Taylor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 424
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Publication date 2000-10-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BBS-066088
  • ISBN 9780801866715 / 0801866715
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.14 x 1.06 in (23.01 x 15.60 x 2.69 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Genetic psychology, Cognition
  • Dewey Decimal Code 156.3
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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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Origins of Intelligence demonstrates that cognitive development in human infants and children first parallels and then exceeds that of our closest living relatives, great apes and monkeys.

About the author

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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