An exploration of how to define and measure the evolution of behavior, learning, memory and mind across the full phylogenetic tree of life
| Autor: | J. S. M. Sarma, Doris Eisenstein, E. M. Eisenstein |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
learning Phylogenetic tree Computer science business.industry behavior Review Measure (mathematics) phylogenetic tree of life memory 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine lcsh:Biology (General) Phylogenetics Behavior learning evolution Artificial intelligence General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business lcsh:QH301-705.5 030217 neurology & neurosurgery mind Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Communicative & Integrative Biology Communicative & Integrative Biology, Vol 9, Iss 3 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1942-0889 |
| Popis: | There are probably few terms in evolutionary studies regarding neuroscience issues that are used more frequently than ‘behavior', ‘learning', ‘memory', and ‘mind'. Yet there are probably as many different meanings of these terms as there are users of them. Further, investigators in such studies, while recognizing the full phylogenetic spectrum of life and the evolution of these phenomena, rarely go beyond mammals and other vertebrates in their investigations; invertebrates are sometimes included. What is rarely taken into consideration, though, is that to fully understand the evolution and significance for survival of these phenomena across phylogeny, it is essential that they be measured and compared in the same units of measurement across the full phylogenetic spectrum from aneural bacteria and protozoa to humans. This paper explores how these terms are generally used as well as how they might be operationally defined and measured to facilitate uniform examination and comparisons across the full phylogenetic spectrum of life. This paper has 2 goals: (1) to provide models for measuring the evolution of ‘behavior' and its changes across the full phylogenetic spectrum, and (2) to explain why ‘mind phenomena' cannot be measured scientifically at the present time. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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