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 Instead he proposes:
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-In place of a single general-purpose intelligence, I have proposed elsewhere (Mithen 1996) that there were three isolated cognitive domains in the minds of large brain hominins (i.e. post-Homo habilis) that I described as social,technical,and natural history intelligences,with each being constituted by a bundle of interacting mental modules. Our interest here is with natural history intelligence, which might also be characterized as ‘intuitive biology’. By this I mean stores of information about the natural world, methods of acquiring further information, and methods of processing information that had become embedded within the hominin genome and did not require learning and/or cultural transmission to acquire. Moreover, these were dedicated to the natural world and quite different to the stores of information and processing methods that were dedicated to interacting with other individuals or manufactur-
+In place of a single general-purpose intelligence, I have proposed elsewhere (Mithen 1996) that there were three isolated cognitive domains in the minds of large brain hominins (i.e. post-Homo habilis) that I described as social, technical, and natural history intelligences, with each being constituted by a bundle of interacting mental modules. Our interest here is with natural history intelligence, which might also be characterized as ‘intuitive biology’. By this I mean stores of information about the natural world, methods of acquiring further information, and methods of processing information that had become embedded within the hominin genome and did not require learning and/or cultural transmission to acquire. Moreover, these were dedicated to the natural world and quite different to the stores of information and processing methods that were dedicated to interacting with other individuals or manufactur-
 ing artefacts. Such intuitive biology would have provided hominins with the type of expert folk-botanical and folk-zoological knowledge that is characteristic of recent hunter-gatherers.
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