Book contents
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 What Is Intelligence? A Panoply of Views
- Chapter 3 Intelligence as the Broad Ability to Adapt to the Environment
- Chapter 4 Why General Intelligence May Be Unhelpful, or Detrimental, in Times of Instability, and for that Matter, in Other Times as Well
- Chapter 5 History of the Theory of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 6 Measurement and Teaching of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 7 Why Do People Persist in Species-Suicidal Beliefs and Practices and What’s to Be Done?
- Chapter 8 The Great Adaptive-Intelligence Test
- Index
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
Book contents
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Adaptive Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 What Is Intelligence? A Panoply of Views
- Chapter 3 Intelligence as the Broad Ability to Adapt to the Environment
- Chapter 4 Why General Intelligence May Be Unhelpful, or Detrimental, in Times of Instability, and for that Matter, in Other Times as Well
- Chapter 5 History of the Theory of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 6 Measurement and Teaching of Adaptive Intelligence
- Chapter 7 Why Do People Persist in Species-Suicidal Beliefs and Practices and What’s to Be Done?
- Chapter 8 The Great Adaptive-Intelligence Test
- Index
Summary
Some old, societally-entrenched habits, like hand-shaking, are hard to break. Yet a time may come when they become maladaptive and possibly even deadly. Today, hand-shaking is no longer adaptive: It can lead to the transmission of COVID-19, a serious and possibly fatal disease. Of course, it can lead to transmission of other diseases as well.
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- Adaptive IntelligenceSurviving and Thriving in Times of Uncertainty, pp. 1 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021