Darwin Machines And the Nature of Knowledge: Concerning Adaptations,Instinct And the Evolution of Intelligence (Penguin science) Plotkin, H. C.

Plotkin, Henry

ISBN 10: 0140230920 / ISBN 13: 9780140230925

Editore: Penguin Group (Canada), 1995

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Some light scratches and marks to the cover, crease down the left edge. The book is fine to read and use throughout, a decent copy. Codice articolo 140223-3

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Titolo: Darwin Machines And the Nature of Knowledge:...

Casa editrice: Penguin Group (Canada)

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

A scientific look at the nature of knowledge and the Darwinian processes which it propogates, both in the minds of human beings and in the genes of all species. Through the process of natural selection, species acquire behaviours that enable them to survive, thus effectively acquiring knowledge of their environment. The book develops Richard Dawkins's idea of the "memes", the equivalent of genes in the Darwinian process by which human ideas propogate.

L'autore:

Henry Plotkin is Professor of Psychobiology and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University College in London.