| PREFACE |
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| BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES |
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| INTRODUCTION |
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CHAPTER 1 PRERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE -- HOW INSECTS AND BIRDS FIND THEIR WAY |
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SMALL-SCALE NAVIGATION -- THE INSECT FORAGER |
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Reading Skylight Patterns -- A Simplified Model of the Outside World |
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Exploiting Landmark Panoramas -- Maps in Insect Minds? |
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Systematic Search -- The Last Resort |
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LARGE-SCALE NAVIGATION -- THE AVIAN MIGRANT |
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Vector Routes -- Preordained Spatial Knowledge |
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Orthodromes and Loxodromes -- What Else? |
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THE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE NAVIGATOR'S MIND |
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CHAPTER 2 COMMUNICATION AND THE MINDS OF MONKEYS |
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WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THE HUMAN MIND? |
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THE ATTRIBUTION OF MENTAL STATES |
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Grunts That Appease and Reconcile |
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NONHUMAN PRIMATE VOCALIZATIONS AND HUMAN LANGUAGE -- SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES |
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CHAPTER 3 WHY ARE WE AFRAID OF APES WITH LANGUAGE? |
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ANIMAL MINDS VERSUS HUMAN MINDS |
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The "Holy Grail" of Grammar |
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WASHOE -- THE FIRST APE TO "SPEAK" |
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Language Is a Two-Way Street |
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LANGUAGE IS NOT IN THE MIND -- IT IS IN INTERACTION |
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KANZI -- LEARNING LANGUAGE WITHOUT BEING TAUGHT |
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Realizing That Others "Think" |
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WINDOWS TO THE MINDS OF OTHERS |
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TOWARD A SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS |
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63 | (5) |
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CHAPTER 4 THE MODULAR NATURE OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE |
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DEBAUCHING THE MIND -- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY'S PAST AND PRESENT |
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THE STANDARD SOCIAL SCIENCE MODEL |
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BACK TO BASICS -- FIVE BIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES |
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UNDERSTANDING THE DESIGN OF ORGANISMS |
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Adaptationist Logic and Evolutionary Psychology |
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Nature and Nurture -- An Adaptationist Perspective |
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Reasoning Instincts -- An Example |
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CHAPTER 5 EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENCE -- BEYOND THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN |
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THE PERSISTENCE OF TOP-DOWN EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY |
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THE ONTOGENETIC INFORMATION BOTTLENECK |
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COMPLICATIONS OF ORGANISM DESIGN |
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HOW FLY GENES BUILD MAMMAL BRAINS |
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WHAT MAKES HUMAN BRAINS HUMAN? |
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EVOLUTION TURNED INSIDE OUT |
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THE EXPERIENCE OF INTELLIGENCE |
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CHAPTER 6 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE |
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IN BIOLOGY UNIQUENESS IS COMMON |
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COULD LANGUAGE BE UNIQUE TO HUMANS? |
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Do Chimpanzees Have Language? |
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Bushes and Ladders -- The Phylogeny of Language |
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Analogy Versus Homology in Evolution |
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ARE CHIMPS AND HUMANS 99% ALIKE? |
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DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE BY NATURAL SELECTION? |
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The Nature of Natural Selection |
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Is Natural Selection a Circular Theory? |
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Alternatives to Natural Selection |
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Evolutionary Origins of Complex Design |
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150 | (2) |
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COULD LANGUAGE HAVE EVOLVED GRADUALLY? |
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Three Questions to Answer |
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154 | (2) |
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FROM SO SIMPLE A BEGINNING, FORMS BEAUTIFUL HAVE EVOLVED |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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| GLOSSARY |
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| SUBJECT INDEX |
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