Cognitive evolution

The vision that we will present is not intended to be exhaustive or totalizing, although it does attempt to highlight the most significant aspects that characterize it. It is a reflection of more than twenty years of work in the educational field, at different levels and with different functions, it is also the result of personal evolution, and how she will be subject to evolution.

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Ebook "Biosemiotic perspectives on language and linguistics (Biosemiotics, Volume 13)" draws together contributions from leading scholars in international biosemiotics, producing an unparalleled series that will appeal to all those interested in the origins and evolution of life, including molecular and evolutionary biologists, ecologists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and historians of science, linguists, semioticians and researchers in artificial life, information theory and communication technology.

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Ebook "Culture and neural frames of cognition and communication" is organized so that two chapters provide general views of the relation between biological evolution, cultural evolution and recent cultural neuroscience studies, while other chapters focus on several aspects of human cognition that have been shown to be strongly influenced by sociocultural factors such as self-concept representation, language processes, emotion, time perception, and decision-making.

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Part 1 book "Dog behaviour, evolution and cognition" includes content: Dogs in historical perspective, concepts in the study of dog behaviour, methodological issues in the behavioural study of the dog, dogs in anthropogenic environments - family and society, comparative overview of canis, the story of domestication - archaeological and phylogenetic evidence, the emergence of phenotypic novelty.

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Part 1 book "Dog behaviour, evolution and cognition" includes content: Intra-specific social organization in dogs and related forms, the perceptual world of the dog, physical–ecological problem solving, affiliative and agonistic social relationships, social learning and social problem solving, change of behaviour in time - from birth to death, the organization of individual behaviour, the genetic contribution to behaviour,... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "The domestic dog - Its evolution, behavior and interactions with people" includes content: Origins of the dog - The archaeological evidence, origins of the dog - Genetic insights into dog domestication, evolution of working dogs, genetics of dog behavior, becoming a dog - Early experience and the development of behavior, breed and gender differences in dog behavior, dog social behavior and communication; ethology, ecology and epidemiology of canine aggression, social cognition and emotions underlying dog behavior.

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Part 1 book "Domestic animal behaviour and welfare" includes content: Introduction and concepts; describing, recording and measuring behaviour; learning, cognition and behaviour development; motivation; evolution and optimality; welfare assessment; behaviour towards predators and social attackers anti predator strategies; feeding; body care; locomotion and space occupied; exploration; spacing behaviour; rest and sleep; general social behaviour; human–domestic animal interactions; seasonal and reproductive behaviour; sexual behaviour.

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Part 2 book "Domestic dog cognition and behavior - The scientific study of canis familiaris" includes content: Visual attention in dogs and the evolution of non verbal communication; cognitive development in gray wolves - development of object permanence and sensorimotor intelligence with respect to domestic dogs, measuring the behaviour of dogs - an ethological approach, looking at dogs - moving from anthropocentrism to canid umwelt, a dog’s eye view of canine cognition, canine welfare science - an antidote to sentiment and myth.

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Part 1 book "Animal signaling and function - An integrative approach" includes content: Introduction; early life history effects, oxidative stress, and the evolution and expression of animal signals; a performance based approach to studying costs of reliable signals; cognitively driven co option and the evolution of complex sexual displays in bowerbirds; integrating functional and evolutionary approaches to the study of color based animal signals.

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Across recent decades, profound changes in the practice of medicine have been accompanied by parallel developments in the daily mental efforts of medical professionals. Using visual metaphors and hand-drawn illustrations, the author explores the evolution of one physician’s brain over the past 25 years.

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Integrating demography and adaptive evolution is pivotal to understanding the evolutionary history and conservation of great apes. However, little is known about the adaptive evolution of our closest relatives, in particular if and to what extent adaptions to environmental differences have occurred.

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In response to ecological niche of domestication, domesticated mammals and birds developed adaptively phenotypic homoplasy in behavior modifications like fearlessness, altered sociability, exploration and cognition, which partly or indirectly result in consequences for economic productivity.

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Brain metastases often occur in cancer evolution. They are not only responsible for death but also for disorders affecting the quality of life and the cognitive functions.

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German case syncretism is often assumed to be the accidental by-product of historical development. This paper contradicts this claim and argues that the evolution of German case is driven by the need to optimize the cognitive effort and memory required for processing and interpretation. This hypothesis is supported by a novel kind of computational experiments that reconstruct and compare attested variations of the German definite article paradigm.

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TSC stands for a bottom-up approach to cognition that has its basis in the claim that the evolution and development of cognition from simple to more complex processes are continuous (cf. Johnson & Rohrer 2006). The theory looks for support in the theory of biological evolution, data from developmental psychology, and analyses of the significance of the body for abstract thought by philosophers such as Dewey and Merleau-Ponty.

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Given all these changes, we think itmakes sense to speak of an evolution for Hollywood film, one that increasingly makes presentational aspects of film either closer to what we perceive in the natural world (color, surrounding sound, enlarged images, etc) or aspects that capitalize on what has been discovered to be perceptually and cognitively acceptable (cuts, shot-reverse-shot composition and point-of-view editing, the optics of cameramovements without feedback fromeyemovements, etc).

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Although technical advances have resulted in marked improvements in the ability to diag‐ nose and surgically treat primary and metastatic brain tumors, the incidence and mortality rates of these tumors is increasing. Particularly affected are young adults and the elderly. The present standard treatment modalities following surgical resection including cranial irradia‐ tion and systemic or local chemotherapy each have limited efficacy and serious adverse side effects.

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In the “sleepwalkers” (1964) Arthur Koestler remarks that “I mistrust the word progress and much prefer the word evolution simply because progress, by definition, can never go wrong, whereas evolution constantly does and so does the evolution of the ideas. Indeed, it is fascinating to observe throughout history the evolution of quite a few “ruling” ideas , moving from gradual acceptance, to popularization, vulgarization, overextension, collapse and disappearance.

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These donors—and the parliaments that approve their budgets—grew impatient with “traditional” approaches to aid that produced limited results or benefited the rich more than the poor. They now favor results-oriented programs that seek to address the underlying structural problems of poverty or broad international development goals, rather than provide specific health services. Current health fund- ing is more likely to be tied to broader grants or the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which do not include family planning and reproductive rights.

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Walnut trees shade the streets of Davis, California. They also provide food for the crows that roost near Davis. Crows crack walnuts by dropping them from heights of 5–10 meters or more onto sidewalks, roads, and parking lots. Occasionally they drop walnuts in front of approaching cars, as if using the cars to crush the nuts for them. Do crows intentionally use cars as nutcrackers? Some of the citizens of Davis, as well as some professional biologists (Maple 1974, in Cristol et al.

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