The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds

• Main Author: Roth, Gerhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: 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...