A brief history of intelligence
After reading this book I have to say it is currently the number 1 recommendation I give if somebody wants to try to understand how the human brain works. Starting from eukaryotes Max Bennett tried to reason about what it means for a living organism to be intelligent. Not only did he summarize the current literature he also synthesized the main ideas into 5 breakthroughs: Steering Reinforcing Simulating Mentalizing Speaking One important note about the whole story is, that it is about the human lineage in the evolutional history, and therefore about animals, vertebrates, mammals and primates. ...