Cognitive Evolution

<p><em>Cognitive Evolution</em> provides an in-depth exploration of the natural history of cognition from the beginning of life on Earth to present-day humans. Drawing together evolutionary comparative and neuroscience research the book brings a unique cognitive perspective to evolutionary psychology. </p><p>The second edition features the latest research and illustrations on emerging topics making it a true update of the field. After introducing evolution Boles adopts an information processing perspective – from inputs to outputs with all the mental processes in between to provide a systematic overview of the evolution of cognition including its sensory motoric perceptual and cognitive components. The combination of evolutionary comparative and neuroscience perspectives provides an insight on topics like vision handedness tools and planning spatial perception pattern recognition memory language and consciousness.</p><p>Cognitive Evolution is a comprehensive essential read for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of cognitive and evolutionary psychology. Researchers will find it a useful and insightful synthesis of the field yet even the curious public will find in it much that is surprising and enlightening.</p>