Explanations and accounts of our own origins have become one of the most popular of all the areas in science that are now regularly brought into the public arena via television, lavishly illustrated books, and even cartoons.
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`this book is worth reading ... it sits comfortably within the general zeitgeist of current work in ecology and evolution ... I highly recommend this volume. It is beautifully illustrated with pictures of the early hominids and the artefacts they produced. ... if you are interested in your past, and how your past has provided you with the symbolic tools to be a scientist, then this is the handbook for you.' TREE, vol.12, no.9, September 1997
`it is a truly remarkable achievement and provides an invaluable resource. ... This handbook does indeed lay the foundations for increased collaborative research and will facilitate interdisciplinary teaching on cognitive evolution. ... a vast bibliographic resource ... it is sure to remain a standard work of reference for a long time' The Times Higher Education Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
`it is a truly remarkable achievement and provides an invaluable resource. ... This handbook does indeed lay the foundations for increased collaborative research and will facilitate interdisciplinary teaching on cognitive evolution. ... a vast bibliographic resource ... it is sure to remain a standard work of reference for a long time' The Times Higher Education Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Explanations and accounts of our own origins have become one of the most popular of all the areas in science that are now regularly brought into the public arena via television, lavishly illustrated books, and even cartoons. The discovery of fossils and artefacts has its own intrinsic interest, but it is the origin of our characteristically human abilities - speech, the creation of images, reading, writing-that holds the imagination.
This volume is a reference work that sets out and evaluates the basic knowledge and theory relevant to these origins of these abilities that have accumulated in the scientific literature over the last few decades. It is a compendium of and a guide to the general topics that assist in understanding human symbolic evolution.
Contributions to the volume include those from linguistics, anthropology and psychology. Primatologists and biologists have also contributed giving the reader a uniquely broad and accessible reference work.
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a milestone combines symbolic with biologic,
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The aim in this book is to create a reference work that sets out and evaluates the basic knowledge and theory relevant to human evolutionary origins that has accumulated in the scientific literature, especially over the last few decades. It is a compendium and a guide, to the general topics that might help in understanding human symbolic evolution.
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This photogallery of fossil hominid skulls provides views of some of the key specimens and morphological changes discussed in the Handbook. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
palaeolithic imagery, extant human languages, phonemicized speech, inferential transitivity, third inferior frontal convolution, suspensory behaviour, presyntactic stage, epistemic pattern, palaeoneurological evidence, human symbolic behaviour, human symbolic evolution, pongid features, basicranial line, semantic feature hypothesis, palaeolithic images, contrastive hypothesis, hominid endocasts, tallying devices, primate brain evolution, early word combinations, transition from prelinguistic, dying eland, indexical role, sign language research, discrimination learning set Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Human Evolution, Harvard University Press, Journal of Experimental Psychology, The Hague, Journal of Child Language, University of Chicago Press, Kegan Paul, Clarendon Press, South America, American Anthropologist, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Scientific American, South Africa, Olduvai Gorge, Oxford University Press, Plenum Press, Middle Palaeolithic, New Guinea, Columbia University Press, Koobi Fora, Ralph Holloway, New Jersey New!
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palaeolithic imagery, extant human languages, phonemicized speech, inferential transitivity, third inferior frontal convolution, suspensory behaviour, presyntactic stage, epistemic pattern, palaeoneurological evidence, human symbolic behaviour, human symbolic evolution, pongid features, basicranial line, semantic feature hypothesis, palaeolithic images, contrastive hypothesis, hominid endocasts, tallying devices, primate brain evolution, early word combinations, transition from prelinguistic, dying eland, indexical role, sign language research, discrimination learning set Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Human Evolution, Harvard University Press, Journal of Experimental Psychology, The Hague, Journal of Child Language, University of Chicago Press, Kegan Paul, Clarendon Press, South America, American Anthropologist, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Scientific American, South Africa, Olduvai Gorge, Oxford University Press, Plenum Press, Middle Palaeolithic, New Guinea, Columbia University Press, Koobi Fora, Ralph Holloway, New Jersey New!
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