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How homo became sapiens [electronic resource] : on the evolution of thinking / Peter Gardenfors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gärdenfors, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Cognition and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 240 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- How homo became sapiens
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this work, Peter Gardenfors embarks on an evolutionary detective story to try and solve one of the big mysteries surrounding human life - how has the modern human being's way of thinking come into existence.
- 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191689543 (ebook) :
- 0191689548 (ebook) :
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