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The evolution of learning was one of the factors that drove the Cambrian explosion.
“We have suggested that increasingly open-ended associative learning and minimal consciousness not only evolved during the Cambrian, but that AL evolution itself may have been one of the factors that drove the Cambrian explosion”
From The Transition to Minimal Consciousness through the Evolution of Associative Learning (2016) · cites this paper as Ginsburg and Jablonka, 2007a,b, 2010a,b, 2015
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“…in the brain of information from multiple sources (Dehaene 2014; Tononi and Koch 2015; Feinberg and Mallatt 2016) so as to enable its use in sophisticated forms of action-guidance, decision-making, memory and learning (Merker 2005, 2007; Ginsburg and Jablonka 2007a,b; Klein and Barron 2016).”
The evolution of associative learning: A factor in the Cambrian explosion
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“However, UAL, like every major innovation, led to new challenging problems and therefore was likely to have driven the evolution of mechanisms that ameliorate them.”
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- Authors
- Ginsburg, S., & Jablonka, E.
- Affiliations
- Open University of Israel (IL)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Ginsburg, Simona
- Venue
- Biological Theory
- Published
- 2007-09
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 218-230
- ISSN
- 1555-5542 (ISSN-L)
- 1555-5550
- OpenAlex
- W2066759516
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 3.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biological Theory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Keywords
- evolution of consciousness, sensory processing, associative learning, Cnidaria, ctenophores, motivational states
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