The first idea: how symbols, language, and intelligence evolved from our porimate ancestors to modern humans
Editorial PERSEUS BOOKS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial PERSEUS BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780738206806
- ISBN10 0738206806
- Tipus Llibre
- Pàgines 503
- Any Edició 2004
- Encuadernació Tela
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Filosofía De La MentThe first idea: how symbols, language, and intelligence evolved from our porimate ancestors to modern humans
Editorial PERSEUS BOOKS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
"In the childhood of every human being, and at the dawn of human history, there is an amazing - and until now unexplained - leap from simple, genetically programmed behavior to symbolic thinking, language, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker explore this missing link and offer new insights into two longstanding questions: how human beings first created symbols and how these abilities initially evolved and were subsequently transmitted and transformed across generations over millions of years." Drawing on evidence - not only from their research and collaborations comparing the language and intelligence of human infants and apes, but also from the fossil record, neuroscience, and Greenspan's extensive work with children with autism - Greenspan and Shanker offer a radical new direction for evolutionary theory, developmental psychology, and philosophy.