The Descent of Mind
Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 March 2000
- ISBN 9780192632593
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages373 pages
- Size 238x168x20 mm
- Weight 588 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, and which were the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us. This volume aims to show what psychologists have to say on the evolution of mind. Accessible to students and researchers alike in psychology, anthropology, evolution, archaeology, and ethology, The Descent of Mind provides a range of provocative answers to the timeless question of what it means to be human.
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To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which were the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us. Some researchers claim language as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by archaeologists and anthropologists until recently, but this volume aims to show what psychologists have to say on the evolution of mind. The book begins with a thorough overview of what is known of the non-primate mind and its evolution. Following this, an international range of experts discuss in temporal sequence the human mind at various stages of evolution, beginning with the pre-hominids of 20 million years ago and ending with contemporary human behaviour. Accessible to students and researchers alike in psychology, anthropology, evolution, archaeology, and ethology, The Descent of Mind provides a range of provocative answers to the timeless question of what it means to be human.
'... this book to open up exciting new dimensions in the study of human evolution' Robin Dunbar School of Biological Sciences, Liverpool
Table of Contents:
Are Humans Special? a history of psychological perspectives
The Background to Hominid intelligence
Phylogeny from Apes to Humans
Human Cognitive Evolution
Predicting Hominid Intelligence from Brain Size
Perception of Personality Traits and Semantic Learning in Evolving Hominids
Whatever Happened to Articulate Speech?
Preconditions for the Evolution of Protolanguages
The Role of Gesture and Mimetic Representation in Making Language the Province of Speech
The Evolution of Deep Social Mind in Humans
Handedness, Cerebral Lateralization, and the Evolution of Language
The Rise of the Metamind
The Evolution of a Theory of Mind
Beliefs About Purpose: On the Origins of Teleological Thought
The Evolution of Certain Novel Human Capacities
Social Influences on Human Assortative Mating
On the Recent Origin of Symbolically-Mediated Language and its Implications for Psychological Science
