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

Plotkin, H. C.

ISBN 10: 0140230920 / ISBN 13: 9780140230925

Editore: Penguin, 1995

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1995. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . .

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• Titolo: Darwin Machines And the Nature of Knowledge: Concerning Adaptations,Instinct And the Evolution of Intelligence (Penguin science)
• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140230920
• ISBN 13: 9780140230925
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very 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.