Abstract
The Evolutionary Concept of "Preadaptation" Applied to Cognitive Neurosciences.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience
The following is a behavioral example of preadaptation: subdominant wolves lick the mouths of alpha wolves as a sign of submissiveness; this behavior can be related to the wolf pups licking the faces of adults to encourage them to regurgitate food
During these 150,000 years, significant changes in cognition have occurred, without evident changes in his brain morphology. These changes in cognition include, but are not limited to, the development of a complex grammatical language, reading, writing, calculation abilities, and meta-cognitive executive functions (Ardila, 2004, 2008, 2011, submitted). These new cognitive abilities are based on those fundamental intellectual abilities that existed in Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago, which represent the pre-adaptations for these new cognitive strategies: grammatical language, reading, writing, etc
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience, a section of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. These changes in cognition include, but are not limited to, the development of a complex grammatical language, reading, writing, calculation abilities, and meta-cognitive executive functions (Ardila, 2004, 2008, 2011, submitted). These new cognitive abilities are based on those fundamental intellectual abilities that existed in Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago, which represent the pre-adaptations for these new cognitive strategies: grammatical language, reading, writing, etc.
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