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Looks at how humans have evolved complex behaviours such as language and culture.
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"...its subject matter is compelling, its presentation cogent, and its message important. For anyone with even a passing interest in the topic, the reward is worth the effort." Roger Lewin, New Scientist
"...a handsome, mind-stretching volume that expands human understanding among practitioners, and may serve as a useful supplementary text in college and universities." Philip R. Harris, Behavioral Science
"All 21 chapters in this book are well written and contain much interesting and at times challenging material." Charles Crawford, Contemporary Psychology
"While most chapters are written on a level appropriate for people from other fields, the breadth of coverage insures that experts in all relevant fields will find plenty of new food for thought. Consequently, this is a rather rare book in that it can be highly recommended for readers ranging from students to experts. All that is required is an interest in tools, language and human cognition, and this will surely be provoked by the book if not already present." Thomas R. Alley, Human Ethology Bulletin
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Human beings have evolved as beings capable of more complex behaviours than any other animal species. In this volume, researchers from many different disciplines present a unique study of how this might have evolved. It will be essential reading for all those interested in human evolution, whether philosopher, humanist or scientist.
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Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution
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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution (1994) ? Edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 9780521485418 Condition: Good | Sold by Crappy Old Books Human evolution. That extraordinary journey in which a rather unremarkable collection of African primates gradually developed the ability to make tools, communicate complex ideas, contemplate their own existence and eventually invent reality television. It is a magnificent achievement, although whether the final development represents evolutionary progress remains open to considerable debate. In Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution , Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold bring together scholarly investigations into one of the most fascinating questions in human history: how did our ancestors develop the intellectual abilities that distinguish modern humanity from its evolutionary relatives? And, perhaps more importantly, did thinking lead to toolmaking, did toolmaking encourage thinking, or did the entire process begin when some prehistoric individual became thoroughly fed up with trying to open a nut using his teeth? This substantial academic volume explores the relationships between technology, communication, intelligence and social behaviour throughout human evolution, drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, psychology, primatology and cognitive science. The central problem is wonderfully complicated. Archaeologists can recover ancient stone tools, examine their manufacture and estimate their age, but discovering precisely what their makers were thinking presents rather greater difficulties. Unfortunately, prehistoric humans neglected to leave written explanations of their intellectual development, and their occasional artistic efforts are not particularly helpful when attempting to reconstruct the finer details of ancient grammar. The contributors examine how tool production may relate to planning, learning, manual dexterity and the transmission of knowledge between generations. Making a simple stone implement requires certain cognitive abilities, but manufacturing increasingly sophisticated technologies suggests more elaborate forms of understanding and cooperation. Language introduces another magnificent puzzle. At what point did our ancestors begin communicating through structured speech? Did language emerge alongside increasingly complex toolmaking, or did the development of social relationships and cooperative behaviour provide the decisive evolutionary advantage? And how much can comparisons with living primates reveal about abilities that developed hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of years ago? The book challenges simplistic accounts of human progress, examining the possibility that technology, language and cognition evolved through interacting processes rather than appearing in a convenient sequence of revolutionary breakthroughs. Published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press, this collection represents an important contribution to interdisciplinary debates about human origins. Some interpretations have inevitably been refined by subsequent discoveries, but its questions remain central to understanding how humanity acquired its remarkable combination of intelligence, creativity and technical ingenuity. This 1994 Cambridge University Press edition , offered in Good condition by Crappy Old Books , is an excellent acquisition for students of archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, cognitive science and anyone fascinated by the intellectual development of our species. A stimulating exploration of the ancient relationship between hands, brains, tools and language, examining how our ancestors developed the abilities that eventually made civilisation possible. Because somewhere in humanity?s distant past, an individual picked up a stone and discovered that it could be used to accomplish something useful. Several million years later, we have artificial intelligence, interplanetary spacecraft and electri. Codice articolo 7706
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Bumping to the fore-edge bottom corner from mid to rear, very little wear overall. Quite clean. 'The question addressed by this volume is how human beings have evolved as creatures who can make and use more complex tools, communicate in more complex ways and engage in more complex forms of social life than any other species in the animal kingdom. Leading researchers from fields as diverse as biological and social anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, psychology, neurology and ethology have come together to present a unique interdisciplinary study of this central question in human evolution.' xii+483 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book. Codice articolo 050010
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