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Scientific work is mainly painstaking, detailed activity devoted to ascertaining, classifying, and securing facts. Yet from time to time our striving for understanding demands that we try to develop a comprehensive picture of the backgrounds, connections, and general laws relating these facts to one another. The nature of the facts determines how fundamental and objective the laws are which can be developed from them, and the sciences differ in the basic problems that can be solved on the basis of the factual information they make available. For physics the origin of the universe is a fundamental problem, while the emergence of life on earth is a basic theme in biology. It seems to me that the genesis of intellectual processes and performances, and the origins and principles of development of human intelligence are also major problems for scientific thinking, problems which have a far-reaching theoretical and practical significance. It is to these problems that we shall now turn.
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Klix, F. (1982). On the Evolution of Cognitive Processes and Performances. In: Griffin, D.R. (eds) Animal Mind — Human Mind. Life Sciences Research Reports, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68469-2_13
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