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abstract: 'Language, foresight, musical skills and other hallmarks of intelligence are connected through an underlying facility that enhances rapid movements. Creativity may result from a Darwinian contest within the brain. '
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What is Intelligence?, edited by Jean Khalfa. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, William H. Calvin. Bantam Books, 1990.
Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human Evolution, edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Language Comprehension in Ape and Child, E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Jeannine Murphy, Rose A. Sevcik, Karen E. Brakke, Shelley L. Williams, and Duane Rumbaugh. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker. William Morrow and Company, 1994.
"Language" and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives, edited by Sue T. Parker and Kathleen R. Gibson. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann. Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Forecasting and planning in an incoherent context, Donald N. Michael. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 36, pp. 79-87, 1989.
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title: The emergence of intelligence
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