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
（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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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
Table of Contents
- 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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