The question addressed by this volume is how human beings have evolved as creatures who can make and use more complex tools, communicate in more complex ways, and engage in more complex forms of social life, than any other species in the animal kingdom. The topics explored include the parallels among speech, manual gesture and other models of communication; a comparison of the tool-using skills and imitative abilities of humans and nonhuman primates; the neurological links among the cognitive processes involved in language, gesture and tool use; how linguistic and technical capacities merge together in processes of cognitive development; and a discussion of what the archaeological record and the ethnography of modern human cultures can tell us about the relationship among tools, language and social life.
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"...its subject matter is compelling, its presentation cogent, and its message important. For anyone with even a passing interest in the topic, the reward is worth the effort." Roger Lewin, New Scientist
"...a handsome, mind-stretching volume that expands human understanding among practitioners, and may serve as a useful supplementary text in college and universities." Philip R. Harris, Behavioral Science
"All 21 chapters in this book are well written and contain much interesting and at times challenging material." Charles Crawford, Contemporary Psychology
"While most chapters are written on a level appropriate for people from other fields, the breadth of coverage insures that experts in all relevant fields will find plenty of new food for thought. Consequently, this is a rather rare book in that it can be highly recommended for readers ranging from students to experts. All that is required is an interest in tools, language and human cognition, and this will surely be provoked by the book if not already present." Thomas R. Alley, Human Ethology Bulletin
"...a handsome, mind-stretching volume that expands human understanding among practitioners, and may serve as a useful supplementary text in college and universities." Philip R. Harris, Behavioral Science
"All 21 chapters in this book are well written and contain much interesting and at times challenging material." Charles Crawford, Contemporary Psychology
"While most chapters are written on a level appropriate for people from other fields, the breadth of coverage insures that experts in all relevant fields will find plenty of new food for thought. Consequently, this is a rather rare book in that it can be highly recommended for readers ranging from students to experts. All that is required is an interest in tools, language and human cognition, and this will surely be provoked by the book if not already present." Thomas R. Alley, Human Ethology Bulletin
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The question addressed by this volume is how human beings have evolved as creatures who can make and use more complex tools, communicate in more complex ways, and engage in more complex forms of social life, than any other species in the animal kingdom.
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Are tools and language related in a sense more profound than that both are attributes of human intelligence or culture? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heterotechnic cooperation, overlapping neural control, gesture become language, learning conventional languages, artefact fallacy, declarative planning, characterizing gestures, quotable gestures, conventional language model, mental constructional skills, human tool use, sequencing machinery, transitive actor, neurobehavioral ontogeny, ape tool use, tube task, complementation theory, conventional sign language, logical cognition, tool behavior, gesture strings, physical cognition, organized sequential behavior, primary communication system, pantomime production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Are tools and language related in a sense more profound than that both are attributes of human intelligence or culture? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heterotechnic cooperation, overlapping neural control, gesture become language, learning conventional languages, artefact fallacy, declarative planning, characterizing gestures, quotable gestures, conventional language model, mental constructional skills, human tool use, sequencing machinery, transitive actor, neurobehavioral ontogeny, ape tool use, tube task, complementation theory, conventional sign language, logical cognition, tool behavior, gesture strings, physical cognition, organized sequential behavior, primary communication system, pantomime production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Brain Sciences, Journal of Human Evolution, Harvard University Press, Current Anthropology, Lawrence Erlbaum, University of Chicago Press, Animal Behaviour, Olduvai Gorge, Comparative Developmental Perspectives, Upper Paleolithic, Clarendon Press, Harwood Academic Publishers, Oxford University Press, University of California, Kegan Paul, Princeton University Press, East Africa, Middle Palaeolithic, Darwin Machine, New Jersey, William Noble, Aldine de Gruyter New!
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- Language and Species by Derek Bickerton on page 230, page 249, and page 312
- Intellectual Development: Birth to Adulthood (Developmental Psychology Series) by Robbie Case in Front Matter, page 136, and page 267
- The Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall on page 149, page 168, and page 268
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