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The Making of the Civilized Mind
Contributor(s): Itzkoff, Seymour W. (Author)
ISBN: 082041154X     ISBN-13: 9780820411545
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE:   $72.15  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: January 1990
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BISAC Categories:
- History
- Philosophy
- Religion
Dewey: 901
LCCN: 89012733
Series: Evolution of Human Intelligence
Physical Information: 309 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
"The Making of the Civilized Mind" is the fourth and final volume of the series, -The Evolution of Human Intelligence.- In this volume, the author discusses the sociobiological status of the human brain in producing social and cultural behavior. Itzkoff argues that culture is a unique product of man's biology traceable to the earliest stages of "Homo's" evolution. However, it is the variability of human intelligence in producing different forms of culture that provides the central argument of the book. Here, Professor Itzkoff shows how high intelligence leads to abstract symbolic thinking and that civilization itself can be seen as a form of cultural life that has been produced by the highest forms of abstraction in such fundamental areas as technology, religion, philosophy, science, music, etc."