| Description |
xix, 476 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture / Gary Hatfield -- 2.When Did We Become Human? Evolutionary Perspectives on the Emergence of the Modern Human Mind, Brain, and Culture / Theodore G. Schurr -- 3.What Genetics Can Tell Us about the Origins of the Modern Human Brain / Jody Hey -- 4.The Primate Mind before Tools, Language, and Culture / Dorothy L. Cheney -- 5.Functions of Premotor Cortices: From Motor Control to Social Cognition / Thierry Chaminade -- 6.The Origins of Human Cooperation from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective / Felix Warneken -- 7.Mimesis Theory Re-Examined, Twenty Years after the Fact / Merlin Donald -- 8.The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language / Peter Gardenfors -- 9.The Cathedral Model for the Evolution of Human Cognition / Steven Mithen -- 10.Cognition, Behavioral Modernity, and the Archaeological Record of the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic / April Nowell -- |
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Contents note continued: 11.Rethinking Paleoanthropology: A World Queerer Than We Supposed / Robert Boyd -- 12.Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action / Kim Sterelny -- 13.The Distinctively-Human Mind: The Many Pillars of Cumulative Culture / Peter Carruthers -- 14.Human Culture Is More Than Memes and Transmission / Philip G. Chase |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-464) and index |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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Brain -- Evolution.
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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| Author |
Hatfield, Gary C. (Gary Carl)
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Pittman, Holly.
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| LC no. |
2012046591 |
| ISBN |
9781934536490 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1934536490 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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