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9780500050811 |
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Gifted |
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Vijayan Kannampilly |
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English |
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153 |
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MIT/PR |
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Steven Mithen |
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PREHISTORY OF MIND |
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: Search for Origins of Art, Religion and Science |
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1 |
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London |
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Thames and Hudson |
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1996 |
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288 |
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| General note |
This is an exhilarating intellectual performance, in the tradition of Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. On the way to showing how the world of our ancient ancestors shaped our modern modular mind, Steven Mithen shares one provocative insight after another as he answers a series of fascinating questions: were our brains hard-wired in the Pleistocene era by the needs of hunter-gatherers? When did religious beliefs first emerge? Why were the first paintings made by humankind so technically accomplished and expressive? What can the sexual habits of chimpanzees tell us about the prehistory of the modern mind? This was the first archaeological account to support the new modular concept of the mind. The concept, promulgated by cognitive and evolutionary psychologists, views the mind as a collection of specialized intelligences or 'cognitive domains',somewhat like a Swiss army knife with its specialized blades and tools. Arguing that only archaeology can answer many of the key questions raised by this new concept, Steven Mithen delineates a three-phase sequence for the mind's evolution over six million years - from early Homo in Africa to the ice-age Neanderthals to our modern modular minds. Here is an intriguing and challenging explanation of what it means to be human, a bold theory about the origins and nature of the mind. |
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Psychology- Mind Evolution |
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Cognition and Memory |
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Psychology- Mind Evolution |
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Thought and Thinking |
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Brain-Evolution |
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Genetic psychology. |
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Cognition. Brain - Evolution. |
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Social evolution. |
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Art, Prehistoric. |
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Language and languages -Origin. |
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Evolution (Biology) Human information processing. |
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Human evolution- Reason -Biological Evolution |
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Hominidae -primate family-Evolution- Zoology |
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Mental Processes-Cognition -Cultural Evolution |
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Reference |
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