The Evolution of Intelligence: Are Humans the Only Animals with Minds?

The Evolution of Intelligence: Are Humans the Only Animals with Minds?

Editorial Reviews
Reference and Research Book News Feb 2006
In a section that is bound to engender controversy [Fetzer] considers questions of racial differences in intelligence in humans.

Book Description
Human beings have long nurtured conceits about their exalted place in the universe, but recent scientific advances challenge their claims to any unique gifts of rationality and expose weaknesses in outmoded, mechanistic models of consciousness. Through a fascinating exploration of the mental abilities of species ranging from bacteria to mountain gorillas, noted science philosopher James Fetzer updates and improves these obsolete conceptualizations and offers an important new theory of intelligence - one grounded in evolutionary theory and by which machines can be "intelligent" without possessing minds.

The Evolution of Intelligence: Are Humans the Only Animals with Minds?

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