The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds

• Main Author: Roth, Gerhard. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Science (General).; Artificial intelligence.; Animal behavior.; Evolution (Biology).; Life sciences.; Humanities.; Consciousness.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Evolutionary Biology.; Behavioural Sciences.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Interdisciplinary Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6259-6

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.