The Symbolic Species - the Co-Evolution of Language & the Brain (Paper): The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain - TW Deacon - Bøger - W W Norton & Co Ltd - 9780393317541 - 22. april 1998
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The Symbolic Species - the Co-Evolution of Language & the Brain (Paper): The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

TW Deacon

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The Symbolic Species - the Co-Evolution of Language & the Brain (Paper): The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."?New York Times Book Review

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.


528 pages, illustrations

Medie Bøger     Hardcover bog   (Bog med hård ryg og stift omslag)
Udgivet USA, 22. april 1998
ISBN13 9780393317541
Forlag W W Norton & Co Ltd
Antal sider 528
Mål 155 × 235 × 30 mm   ·   730 g
Sprog Engelsk