Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture /

Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture / / ed. by Holly Pittman, Gary Hatfield.

Descartes boldly claimed: "I think, therefore I am." But one might well ask: Why do we think? How? When and why did our human ancestors develop language and culture? In other words, what makes the human mind human?Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture offers a comprehensive and scientific...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Boyd, Robert,
Carruthers, Peter,
Chaminade, Thierry,
Chase, Philip G.,
Cheney, Dorothy L.,
Donald, Merlin,
Gärdenfors, Peter,
Hatfield, Gary,
Hey, Jody,
Mithen, Steven,
Nowell, April,
Richerson, Peter J.,
Schurr, Theodore G.,
Seyfarth, Robert M.,
Sterelny, Kim,
Warneken, Felix,
HerausgeberIn:
Hatfield, Gary,
Pittman, Holly,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 27 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: The Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
  • 2. When Did We Become Human? Evolutionary Perspectives on the Emergence of the Modern Human Mind, Brain, and Culture
  • 3. What Genetics Can Tell Us about the Origins of the Modern Human Brain
  • 4. The Primate Mind before Tools, Language, and Culture
  • 5. Functions of Premotor Cortices: From Motor Control to Social Cognition
  • 6. The Origins of Human Cooperation from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective
  • 7. Mimesis Theory Re-Examined, Twenty Years after the Fact
  • 8. The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language
  • 9. The Cathedral Model for the Evolution of Human Cognition
  • 10. Cognition, Behavioral Modernity, and the Archaeological Record of the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic
  • 11. Rethinking Paleoanthropology: A World Queerer Than We Supposed
  • 12. Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action
  • 13. The Distinctively Human Mind: The Many Pillars of Cumulative Culture
  • 14. Human Culture Is More than Memes and Transmission
  • References Cited
  • Index

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