| The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain Contributor(s): Deacon, Terrence W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393317544 ISBN-13: 9780393317541 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $30.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: 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. Deacon injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Developmental Biology - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
| Dewey: 153.6 |
| LCCN: 96031115 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 528 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Deacon, Terrence W.: - 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. |
