More Than Nature Needs Language, Mind, and Evolution |
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| Author:
| Bickerton, Derek |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-72490-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing about language evolution, Derek Bickerton resolves a crucial problem that both biology and cognitive science have ignored: how animal thinking escaped the prison of the here and now.
How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing about language evolution, Derek Bickerton resolves a crucial problem that both biology and cognitive science have ignored: how animal thinking escaped the prison of the here and now.