The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the human brain

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The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the human brain

Terrence Deacon

(Penguin books)

Penguin, 1998

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Originally published: U.S.: Norton; London: Allen Lane, 1997

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Includes index

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内容説明

Drawing on the author's breakthrough research, THE SYMBOLIC SPECIES presents an entirely new explanation of our unique language ability. Language evolved in only one species and in only one way - without precedent and without parallel. Terrence Deacon asserts that language evolution did not require the sudden appearance of a specialized language instinct, nor the development of more complex brains. Instead, language reflects a new kind of thinking: symbolic thinking. 'Turns everything we know about language on its head' - Jerome Burne, Sunday Telegraph

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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