Comparative Mental Development |
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Authors: | Jonas Langer |
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Affiliation: | (1) Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, via U. Aldrovandi 16b, 00197 Rome, Italy |
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Abstract: | To reconstruct the evolution of human cognitive development we are studying its comparative ontogeny in primate phylogeny (i.e., two monkey species, two chimpanzee species, and humans). The research has discovered primate conceptual universals including logical (e.g., classifying), arithmetic (e.g., quantitative substituting), and physical (e.g., causal) cognitions. But the ontogenetic covariation between these conceptual universals is progressively displaced or heterochronic in primate phylogeny. Heterochronic evolution produced the most synchronic and widest ontogenetic window for progressive cognitive development in humans. |
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Keywords: | cognitive evolution conceptual universals comparative ontogeny primate phylogeny |
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