The Origin And Evolution of Intelligence

Arnold B. Scheibel and J. William Schopf

ISBN 10: 0763703656 / ISBN 13: 9780763703653

Published by Jones and Bartlett, 1997

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What is intelligence? From where did it come? Will the human brain grow and adapt To The ever-changing world? These and many other questions are addressed in the Origin and Evolution of Intelligence. This volume is composed of a series of articles presented on the origin and evolution of intelligence in March 1995 at the Eighth Annual Symposium of the UCLA Center For The Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life (CSEOL). The six authors of the contributions to this volume discuss in detail an enormous span of invertebrate and vertebrate life forms and wrestle with a vast array of problems ranging from direction finding in ants and birds to sociopolitical communication in monkeys, symbol manipulation in apes, and language use in humans. All these phenomena may be grouped under the general term intelligence, The unifying theme of the volume. Large. 169 pages.

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• Title: The Origin And Evolution of Intelligence
• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763703656
• ISBN 13: 9780763703653
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1200 grams
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About the Authors

Arnold B. Scheibel, University of California, Los Angeles, convener of the Eighth CSEOL Symposium, is a Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of California, Los Angeles. Esteemed internationally for his studies of structural changes in the aging human brain, Dr. Scheibel is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. In 1986, he was selected as the 61st UCLA Faculty Lecturer, “the highest honor the faculty can give one of its own."

J. William Schopf, Editor, University of California at Los AngelesA member of the Department of Earth and Space Science, the Molecular Biology Institute, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA he has been honored as the Faculty Research Lecturer and is recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award and of the Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence. Discoverer of the oldest fossil now known on Earth, he has pursued geological and biological field studies in Australia, India, China, Europe, South Africa, North America, and the former Soviet Union.