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Do we have bigger brains than dolphins? Does your dog remember where it buried its bone? Why don't sheep laugh or gorillas lie? Why do we remember faces but not names? In 21 short walks around the human brain, acclaimed psychologist Michael Corballis answers these and other quest ...
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Marshaling far-flung evidence from anthropology, animal behavior, neurology, molecular biology, anatomy, linguistics, and evolutionary psychology, the author makes the case that language developed, with the emergence of Homo sapiens, from primate gestures to a true signed languag ...
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Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This title demonstrates how these recursive structures led to the emergence of language and of speech, which ultimately enabled us to share our thoughts, plan with others, and reshape our environme ...
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This title gives an overview of the non-primate mind and its evolution. There is also a discussion in temporal sequence of the human mind at various stages of evolution, beginning with the pre-hominids of 20 million years ago and ending with contemporary human behaviour
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This detailed account of human language and evolution, reconciling the apparent dichotomy between humans and all other animals, focuses on the speculative presence of a Generative Assembly Device (GAD), unique to Homo sapiens.
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This study book addresses the question of what makes humans unique, of how sharply we differ from other animals. Its main theme is that the distinctive versatility of human thought and mental representation depends on special properties of the left side of the brain.
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This text aims to show what psychologists have to say on the evolution of mind. It begins with an overview of what is known of the non-primate mind and its evolution, and then discusses the human mind at its various stages of evolution, from the pre-hominids to contemporary behav ...
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