| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 476 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Penn museum international research conferences ; volume 5 |
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Penn Museum international research conferences ; v. 5
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| Contents |
Introduction: evolution of mind, brain, and culture / Gary Hatfield -- When did we become human? Evolutionary perspectives on the emergence of the modern human mind, brain, and culture / Theodore G. Schurr -- What genetics can tell us about the origins of the modern human brain / Jody Hey -- The primate mind before tools, language, and culture / Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney -- Functions of premotor cortices: from motor control to social cognition / Thierry Chaminade -- The origins of human cooperation from a developmental and comparative perspective / Felix Warneken -- Mimesis theory re-examined, twenty years after the fact / Merlin Donald -- The role of cooperation in the evolution of protolanguage and language / Peter Gärdenfors -- The cathedral model for the evolution of human cognition / Steven Mithen -- Cognition, behavioral modernity, and the archeological record of the middle and early upper Paleolithic / April Nowell -- Rethinking paleoanthropology: a world queerer than we supposed / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Human behavioral ecology, optimality, and human action / Kim Sterelny -- The distinctively-human mind: the many pillars of cumulative culture / Peter Carruthers -- Human culture is more than memes and transmission / Philip G. Chase |
| Summary |
Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture draws together studies in archaeology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, genetics, neuroscience, and environmental science to investigate the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture |
| Notes |
Proceedings of a workshop held in Philadelphia, September 27-30, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Human evolution -- Congresses
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Brain -- Evolution -- Congresses
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Language and languages -- Origin -- Congresses
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Evolution (Biology)
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Brain.
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Language and languages.
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Culture.
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Biological Evolution
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Brain
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Language
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Culture
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evolution.
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brains.
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languages (study discipline)
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language (general communication)
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culture note.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Brain -- Evolution.
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Human evolution.
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Människans utveckling.
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Hjärna.
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Språk.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hatfield, Gary C. (Gary Carl), editor
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Pittman, Holly, editor
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| LC no. |
2012046591 |
| ISBN |
9781934536605 |
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1934536601 |
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