The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the brain
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The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the brain
Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 489-510
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Human language is one of the most distinctive behavioural adaptations on the planet. Languages evolved in only one species, in only one way, without precedent, and without parallel. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution have produced hundreds of thousands of species with brains, and tens of thousands with complex learning abilities. Only one of these has ever wondered about its place in the whole scheme, because only one - through its language - evolved with the ability to do so. This book aims to alter the understanding of what it means to be human: "the universe isn't a soulless, blindly spinning clockwork, but instead nascent hear and mind".
目次
- Part 1 Language: the human paradox
- a loss for words
- symbols aren't simple
- outside the brain. Part 2 Brain: The size of intelligence
- growing apart
- a Darwinian electrician
- the talking brain
- symbol minds
- locating language. Part 3 Co-evolution: and the word became flesh
- symbolic origins
- a serendipitous mind
- such stuff as dreams are made off.
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