The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Roth, Gerhard (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Artificial intelligence.; Behavioral sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Nature.; Environment.; Cognitive psychology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Evolutionary Biology.; Behavioral Sciences.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

On the basis of evolutionary and behavioral biology, neuroscience and anthropology, this book investigates to which extent it is possible to reconstruct the evolution of nervous systems and brains as well as of mental-cognitive abilities, in short “intelligence”, and to which extent we can correlate...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Mind and Intelligence
• What is evolution?- The mind begins with life
• The language of neurons
• Bacteria, archaea, protozoa: successful life without a nervous system
• The “invertebrates” and their nervous systems
• Invertebrate cognition and intelligence
• The Deuterostomia
• The brains of vertebrates
• Sensory systems – the coupling between brain and environment
• How intelligent are vertebrates?- Do animals have consciousness?- Comparing vertebrate brains
• Are humans unique?- Determinants of the evolution of brains and minds
• Brains and minds.