Rather than simply responding to the stimuli they receive from outside, they recreate the world in their minds to explain it to themselves. Homo sapiens have slim grounds for identifying the key factor possessed by the human brain that accounts for their unique reasoning abilities...
How did human intelligence evolve? Early Man: Though our fossil ancestors can be traced back millions of years, Homo sapiens only arose about 100,000 years ago. Our intelligence evolved rapidly -- likely the fastest of any organism in Earth history. ...
One theory looks at what first happens to us as babies. Human infants are great explorers. We touch and feel everything. As we do this, we develop a sense of what belongs where. These explorations trace the topographies of our bodies and our relationship with things, how our bodies interac...
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How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, ...
a famous 3.2-million-year-old human ancestordiscovered in Ethiopia, had a small, chimp-sized brain and long arms that suggest her species still spent a lot of time up trees, perhaps retreating to the branches at night as chimps still do. But she did have one defining human trait: she wa...
Approaches to the Evolution of Language List of figures; Introduction; 1. The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Marc Hauser, Noam Chomsky and W. Tecumseh Fitch; Part I. Language Architecture: 2. Some simple evo-devo theses: how true might they... ...
9. How do organisms evolve? 9.有机体是如何进化的? 10. Why did dinosaurs grow to be so big? 10.为什么恐龙长得如此之大? 11. Did ancient humans interbreed with other human-like ancestors? 11.远古人类是否曾与其他类人祖先杂交? 12. Why do humans get so attached to dogs and cats?
How did life on Earth begin and evolve?The many different species of living things on Earth (and many species that are now extinct) evolved from very simple living things.Life on Earth began about 3500 million years ago.Evidence for evolution is provided by fossils and from analysis of ...