How could something as seemingly transcendental as the human mind have arisen from far simpler material beginnings? This book provides a comprehensive overview of evolution from pre-life and early life forms through increasing complexity to advanced cognitive systems using a new framework based on dynamic systems theory.

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KEN RICHARDSON was formerly Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human Development and Learning, The Open University, UK (now retired). He has a wide experience in researching and teaching in brain biology, cognitive sciences and human development. He has published around 100 journal papers and is author of Understanding Psychology; Understanding Intelligence; Origins of Human Potential: Evolution, Development and Psychology; Models of Cognitive Development and The Making of Intelligence.

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Book Title: The Evolution of Intelligent Systems
Book Subtitle: How Molecules became Minds
Authors: Ken Richardson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299245
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25249-3Published: 20 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32211-4Published: 01 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29924-5Published: 20 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 234
Topics: Medical Sociology, Cognitive Psychology, Evolutionary Biology, Psychometrics, General Psychology, Neuropsychology

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