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How homo became sapiens : on the evolution of thinking / Peter Gärdenfors.
LIBRA BF698.95 .G37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gärdenfors, Peter
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Cognition and culture.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- On the evolution of thinking
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Our ability to 'think' is really one of our most puzzling characteristics. In this compelling new work, Peter Gardenfors embarks on an evolutionary detective story to try and solve one of the big mysteries surrounding human existence--how the modern human way of thinking came to be. Immensely readable and humorous, this book will be valuable for students in psychology and biology, and enjoyable for the general reader of popular science.
- Contents:
- Thinking from an evolutionary perspective
- Sensation, perception and imagination
- The world within
- Reading other people's minds
- Self-consciousness
- The dawn of language
- The origin of speech
- Externalizing the inner world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198528507
- 0198528515
- OCLC:
- 52486264
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