Landscape of the Mind : : Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought / / John Hoffecker.
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools tha...
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