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Descent of Mind

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Description

To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which were the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us. Some researchers claim language as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by archaeologists and anthropologists until recently, but this text aims to show what psychologists have to say on the evolution of mind. The book begins with a thorough overview of what is known of the non-primate mind and its evolution. Following this, an international range of experts discuss in temporal sequence the human mind at various stages of evolution, beginning with the pre-hominids of 20 million years ago and ending with contemporary human behaviour.Table of Content1: M.C. Corballis, and S.E.G. Lea: Are Humans Special? a history of psychological perspectives; 2: S.E.G. Lea: The Background to Hominid intelligence; 3: M.C. Corballis: Phylogeny from Apes to Humans; 4: R.W. Byrne: Human Cognitive Evolution; 5: M.J. Beran, K.R. Gibson, and D.M. Rumbaugh: Predicting Hominid Intelligence from Brain Size; 6: J.E. King, D.M. Rumbaugh, and E.S. Savage Rumbaugh: Perception of Personality Traits and Semantic Learning in Evolving Hominids; 7: P.F. MacNeilage: Whatever Happened to Articulate Speech?; 8: M. Donald: Preconditions for the Evolution of Protolanguages; 9: S. Goldin-Meadow and D. McNeill: The Role of Gesture and Mimetic Representation in Making Language the Province of Speech; 10: A. Whiten: The Evolution of Deep Social Mind in Humans; 11: I.C. McManus: Handedness, Cerebral Lateralization, and the Evolution of Language; 12: T. Suddendorf: The Rise of the Metamind; 13: S. Baron-Cohen: The Evolution of a Theory of Mind; 14: D. Kelemen: Beliefs About Purpose: On the Origins of Teleological Thought; 15: P. Bloom: The Evolution of Certain Novel Human Capacities; 16: D. Thiessen: Social Influences on Human Assortative Mating; 17: A. Lock: On the Recent Origin of Symbolically-Mediated Language and its Implications for Psychological Science.

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198524199
Author: Lea S.E.G.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Binding: hardcover
Condition: new
Pages: 374
Language: english
Country of Origin: United States
Weight (g): 400
Height (mm): 30
Length (mm): 198
Width (mm): 132

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: We offer a 30-day return window for most products. Items must be unused, in their original packaging, and accompanied by proof of purchase to qualify for a full refund.
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: Yes — we never store your card details. All payments are handled by Stripe, a PCI-DSS Level 1 certified payment processor, using industry-standard TLS encryption.
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