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In the Light of Evolution Volume VII: The Human Mental Machinery (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Part I: CURRENT STUDY OF THE MINDBRAIN RELATIONSHIPS
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... Following this point, Seyfarth and Cheney give data on different kinds of social challenges among female baboons that are better solved by means of affiliative behavior. Even if ToM is a good hypothesis to link close social relationships to mental constructs and reproductive success, an eventual border might separate human consciousness from nonhuman primates' more "instinctive" behaviors.
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... Mashour and Alkire propose to study this evolution by means of models coming from the recovery of consciousness after general anesthesia in animals.
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