Evolution Of Human Intelligence

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Bradshaw, J.L. (1997). Human Evolution. A Neuropsychological Perspective. Hove, Psychology Press.

Changeux, J.-P. (1985). Neuronal Man. The Biology of Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Crook, J.H. (1980). The Evolution of Human Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Donald, M. (1991). Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. London: Harvard University Press.

Luria, A.R. and Vygotsky, L.S. (1992). Ape, Primitive Man and Child. Orlando: Paul M. Deutsch Press, Inc.

Mithen, S. (1996). The Prehistory of the Mind. London: Thames and Hudson.

Noble, W., and Davidson, I. (1996). Human Evolution, Language and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parker, S.T., and McKinney, M.L. (1999). Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Richards, G. (1987). Human Evolution. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Richardson, K. (1999). The Making of Intelligence. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Vauclair, J. (1996). Animal Cognition: An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology. London: Harvard University Press.

Papers

Key papers & discussions

Wynn, T. (1979). The intelligence of later Acheulian hominids. Man (ns), 14: 371–391.

Wynn, T. (1981). The intelligence of Oldowan hominids. Journal of Human Evolution, 10: 529–541.

Wynn, T. (1991). Tools, grammar and the archaeology of cognition. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1: 2: 191–206.

Wynn, T. and McGrew, W. (1989). An ape’s view of the Oldowan. Man (ns), 24: 383–398.

Journals

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