Authors: Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda, & Johan Lind 

“The Human Evolutionary Transition” offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evolutionary paths to intelligence. 

This incisive book shows how animals rely on robust associative mechanisms that are guided by genetic information, which enable animals to sidestep complex problems in learning and decision-making but ultimately limit what they can learn.

Humans embody an evolutionary transition to a different kind of intelligence, one that relies on behavioral and mental flexibility.