The Evolution of Cognition

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MIT Press (2000)
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This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches.

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Cognitive evolution: A psychological perspective.M. E. Bitterman
Causal reasoning, mental rehearsal, and the evolution of primate cognition.Robin Im Dunbar
Psychophylogenesis: innovations and limitations in the evolution of cognition.Ludwig Huber
The privatization of sensation.Nicholas Humphrey
Feeding innovations and their cultural transmission in bird populations.Louis Lefebvre
The origin and cultural transmission of feeding innovations in birds.L. Lefebvre
The search for a mental rubicon.E. Macphail
Climate, culture and the evolution of cognition.Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd
Modularity and the evolution of cognition.S. J. Shettleworth
Gossip and other aspects of language as group-level adaptations.David Sloane Wilson, Carolyn Wilczynski, Alexandra Wells & Laura Weiser

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