| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Are humans special? A history of psychological perspectives / Michael C. Corballis and Stephen E.G. Lea -- 2. The background to hominid intelligence / Stephen E.G. Lea -- 3. Phylogeny from apes to humans / Michael C. Corballis -- 4. Human cognitive evolution / Richard W. Byrne -- 5. Predicting hominid intelligence from brain size / Michael J. Beran, Kathleen R. Gibson and Duane M. Rumbaugh -- 6. Perception of personality traits and semantic learning in evolving hominids / James E. King, Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- 7. Whatever happened to articulate speech? / Peter F. MacNeilage -- 8. Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages / Merlin Donald |
| Summary |
This title gives an overview of the non-primate mind and its evolution. There is also a discussion in temporal sequence of the human mind at various stages of evolution, beginning with the pre-hominids of 20 million years ago and ending with contemporary human behaviour |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Evolutionary psychology.
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Human evolution.
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Brain -- Evolution.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Psychology.
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Genetics
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Psychology
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Hominidae -- psychology
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Psychology, Comparative
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psychology.
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Psychology
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Brain -- Evolution
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Evolutionary psychology
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Human evolution
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Psychology, Comparative
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Entwicklungspsychologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Gehirn
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Evolution
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Hominidae
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Psychologie
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Cognitie.
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Evolutie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Corballis, Michael C
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Lea, S. E. G., 1946-
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| LC no. |
98045132 |
| ISBN |
9780191670497 |
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0191670499 |
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