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In this chapter, a horse talks; pigs fly; and mice design a computer. But mainly we consider a form of memory that evolved in humans. Part of the temporal lobe expanded and added a generalization—representing the concepts and categories of cultural memory—to a specialization: representing distant signs of food. At about the same time, posterior parietal areas also expanded and added a different form of generalization—representing relations of many kinds—to a specialization: representing relations among quantities. Both the temporal and parietal lobes interact with the prefrontal cortex, especially the parts that first emerged in anthropoids. Together, these evolutionary innovations improved the ability of evolving hominins to cope with novel and challenging problems. In this sense, hominin evolution produced cortical areas with a specialization for generalization. |
