Intelligence and evolutionary epistemology

Intelligence is considered as one level in a multiple level model of evolution, each level being defined by its own units of selection and by the capacity to furnish adaptations to environmental events that occur within particular frequency bands. The specific implications for intelligence are that it is never an across-species generalist capacity but always focussed around species-typical adaptive behaviours; and that it interacts with evolution at other levels, notably at the sociocultural level in the case of Humans.