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Intelligent behaviour is a device for ensuring the survival of complex, mobile organisms. All primates show intelligent behaviour. The question we now face is whether human intelligence is qualitatively different. Is our species unique in any non-trivial way? We shall approach this question by looking first at human evolution, then at the distinctive features of human entity. brain function, and finally - briefly - at the notion of “mind” as a biological
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Agutter, P.S., Wheatley, D.N. (2007). Human Evolution. In: About Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5418-1_17
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