| Description |
1 online resource (341 pages) |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Figure Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 The Origins of Life; 2 The Reductionist Nightmare; 3 Ant Country; 4 Winning Ways; 5 Universals and Parochials; 6 Neural Nests; 7 Features Great and Small; 8 What is it Like to be a Human?; 9 We Wanted to Have a Chapter on Free Will, but We Decided not to, so Here It Is; 10 Extelligence; 11 Simplex, Complex, Multiplex; Epilogue; Notes; Further Reading; Index |
| Summary |
Bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen return with an exhilarating and entertaining exploration of how mind, language and culture evolved. Providing a fresh outlook on these topical questions, they develop new and intriguing insights into the nature of evolution, science and humanity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition and culture.
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Consciousness.
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Intellect
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Genetic psychology.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Consciousness
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Intelligence
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Cultural Diversity
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Cognition and culture
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Consciousness
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Cultural pluralism
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Genetic psychology
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Intellect
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cohen, Jack
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| ISBN |
9780511053665 |
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0511053665 |
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9780511038426 |
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0511038429 |
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1280429186 |
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9781280429187 |
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