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The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolve from Our Early Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans: How Symbols, Language, and ... from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans - Hardcover

Greenspan, Stanley I; Shanker, Stuart

 
9780738206806: The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolve from Our Early Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans: How Symbols, Language, and ... from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0738206806 ISBN 13: 9780738206806
Verlag: Da Capo Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In this highly original work, one of the world's most distinguished child psychiatrists together with a philosopher at the forefront of ape and child language research present a startling hypothesis-that the development of our higher-level symbolic thinking, language, and social skills cannot be explained by genes and natural selection, but depend on cultural practices learned anew by each generation over millions of years, dating back to primate and prehuman cultures. Furthermore, for the first time, they present their remarkable research revealing the steps leading to symbolic thinking in the life of each new human infant and show that contrary to now-prevailing theories of Pinker, Chomsky, and others, there is no biological explanation that can account for these distinctly human abilities.Drawing from their own original work with human infants and apes, and meticulous examination of the fossil record, Greenspan and Shanker trace how each new species of nonhuman primates, prehumans, and early humans mastered and taught to their offspring in successively greater degrees the steps leading to symbolic thinking. Their revolutionary theory and compelling evidence reveal the true origins of our most advanced human qualities and set a radical new direction for evolutionary theory, psychology, and philosophy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., author of the widely used and praised books The Challenging Child and (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) Engaging Autism , is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Stuart G. Shanker, D.Phil., is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology at York University, in Toronto. At the forefront of research into ape and child language, his acclaimed books include Apes, Language and the Human Mind (with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Talbot Taylor) and Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI . Dr. Shanker's critiques of genetic determinist theories of human development have been the subject of television specials, including "The Today Show," "Discovery," and "The Pamela Wallin Show."

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Verlag
Da Capo Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0738206806
ISBN 13 
9780738206806
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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