Abstract
The twin searches for animal intelligence and its neural counterparts have been dominated by a model that predicted a unilinear, hierarchical progression from simpler intellectual abilities to more complex abilities and from simpler brains to more complex brains. This model has produced a number of baffling inconsistencies and paradoxes for investigators who sought a smooth progression of increased behavioral performance or increased brain complexity among animals selected to represent stages in human evolution. On the other hand, a model based on the evolutionary principles of divergence and adaptation can deal more readily with the nonlinearities observed in both the behavioral data and the neuroanatomical data.
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Hodos, W. (1982). Some Perspectives on the Evolution of Intelligence and the Brain. In: Griffin, D.R. (eds) Animal Mind — Human Mind. Life Sciences Research Reports, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68469-2_3
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