The fossil record of primate intelligence: From the earliest primates to human origins

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Main Author: David R. Begun
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Published: Universitat de València 2024
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contents The fossil record of primate intelligence: From the earliest primates to human origins David R. Begun Comunicación hominoids cognition paleoneurology Primate evolution paleoanthropology Animals collect and process the information they need to survive and reproduce. The means by which they process information is through the capacity of intelligence, which is in turn a function of the brain, its morphology, size, organization, and cytoarchitecture. While the internal organization and cellular interconnectivity of the brains of fossilized animals are invisible to paleontologists, the size and surface morphology of the brain are sometimes preserved, usually only in part, in the form of endocasts (casts, either natural or artificial, of the inside of the brain case). This broad survey of the evolution of intelligence in primates as interpreted from the fossil record of endocasts is primarily focused on the lineages that inform us more directly about the evolutionary events leading to the origin of human intelligence. 2024 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511778116015 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/511778116015.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/movil https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.25418 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.14
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publisher Universitat de València
spellingShingle The fossil record of primate intelligence: From the earliest primates to human origins
David R. Begun
Comunicación
hominoids
cognition
paleoneurology
Primate evolution
paleoanthropology
The fossil record of primate intelligence: From the earliest primates to human origins David R. Begun Comunicación hominoids cognition paleoneurology Primate evolution paleoanthropology Animals collect and process the information they need to survive and reproduce. The means by which they process information is through the capacity of intelligence, which is in turn a function of the brain, its morphology, size, organization, and cytoarchitecture. While the internal organization and cellular interconnectivity of the brains of fossilized animals are invisible to paleontologists, the size and surface morphology of the brain are sometimes preserved, usually only in part, in the form of endocasts (casts, either natural or artificial, of the inside of the brain case). This broad survey of the evolution of intelligence in primates as interpreted from the fossil record of endocasts is primarily focused on the lineages that inform us more directly about the evolutionary events leading to the origin of human intelligence. 2024 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511778116015 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/511778116015.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/movil https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.25418 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.14
title The fossil record of primate intelligence: From the earliest primates to human origins
topic Comunicación
hominoids
cognition
paleoneurology
Primate evolution
paleoanthropology
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511778116015
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/html/
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/511778116015.epub
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511778116015/movil
https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.25418