| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Archaeological series ; 13 |
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Archaeological series (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; 13.
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| Contents |
List of Contributors; ; Forward; Philip Tobias; ; Acknowledgments Introduction ; April Nowell PART I: ARCHAEOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Chapter 1. The Role of Archaeology in Cognitive Science; Thomas Wynn Chapter 2. The Re-Emergence of Cognitive Archaeology; April Nowell PART II: ON THE GROUND: INTERPRETING MATERIAL AND NON-MATERIAL ARTIFACTS Chapter 3. Memories out of Mind: The archaeology of the oldest memory systems; Francesco d'Errico Chapter 4. A Pragmatic View of the Emergence of Paleolithic Symbol Using; Martin Byers Chapter 5. Nonmaterial Artifacts: A Distributed Approach to Mind; Shirley Strum and Deborah Forster PART III: PALEONEUROLOGY Chapter |
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6. Archaeological Implications of Paleoneurology; Harry J. Jerison Chapter 7. Intellectual Surplusage: The Role of Bipedalism; Sean C. Hogan and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. Chapter 8. Before or After the Split? Hominoid Brain Structures and the Evolution of the Human Mind; Katerina Semendeferi PART IV: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN HUMAN EVOLUTION Chapter 9. Multilevel Information Processing, Archaeology and Evolution; Philip Chase Chapter 10. Behavioral Response to Variable Pleistocene Landscapes; Richard Potts Chapter 11. The Fossil Evidence for the Evolution of Human Intelligence in Pleistocene Homo; Anne Weaver, Trenton W. Holliday, Christopher B |
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Ruff and Erik Trinkaus PART V: A FINAL WORD: THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE Chapter 12. On the Neural Bases of Spoken Language; Philip Lieberman Chapter 13. Discovering the Symbolic Potential of Communicative Signs--The Origins of Speaking a Language; William Noble and Iain Davidson |
| Summary |
The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines. The complexity and enormity of this topic requires the coordinated efforts of many researchers. This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution |
| Analysis |
Anatomy |
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Evolution of Sex Differences in Spatial Cognition |
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Language and Information Processing in Human Evolution |
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Palaeontology Psychology |
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Palaeontology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 4, 2018) |
| Subject |
Genetic psychology.
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Cognition.
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Cognition
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cognition.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Cognition
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Genetic psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nowell, April, 1969- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781789201697 |
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1789201691 |
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