Modeling cognitive evolution: On the path to a theory of the evolutionary origins of thinking

The book discusses a new scientific direction --- modeling of cognitive evolution, that is, the evolution of the cognitive abilities of biological organisms, as a result of which human thinking occurred. The philosophical prerequisites for the studies of cognitive evolution are characterized. It has been shown that at present there are powerful tanks of modeling cognitive evolution both from computational sciences and biological research. The initial steps of modeling cognitive evolution are presented. Interdisciplinary relations of future cognitive evolution studies are characterized, these studies are closely related to the foundations of science, with the foundations of mathematics, with the theory of cognition, with the scientific foundations of artificial intelligence, with modeling at the junction of computational sciences and biological experimental studies.
The book is designed for a wide range of readers who are interested in the problem of the origin of human thinking, cognitive research, modeling the cognitive abilities of biological organisms, philosophical foundations of science