The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Softcover

Deacon, Terrence W.

 
9780393317541: The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393317544 ISBN 13: 9780393317541
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions.

Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Terrence W. Deacon is a professor of biological anthropology and neuroscience and the chair of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of The Symbolic Species and Incomplete Nature, he lives near Berkeley, California.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393317544
ISBN 13 
9780393317541
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
528
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