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The main contribution of the fossil record concerning the evolution of intelligence, as I perceive it, is the time perspective: the time depth.
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Pickford, M. (1988). The Evolution of Intelligence: A Palaeontological Perspective. In: Jerison, H.J., Jerison, I. (eds) Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70877-0_11
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