Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
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Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture

About this book

Descartes boldly claimed: "I think, therefore I am." But one might well ask: Why do we think? How? When and why did our human ancestors develop language and culture? In other words, what makes the human mind human? Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture offers a comprehensive and scientific investigation of these perennial questions. Fourteen essays bring together the work of archaeologists, cultural and physical anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, geneticists, a neuroscientist, and an environmental scientist to explore the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture. The volume represents and critically engages major theoretical approaches, including Donald's stage theory, Mithen's cathedral model, Tomasello's joint intentionality, and Boyd and Richerson's modeling of the evolution of culture in relation to climate change.No recent publication combines this breadth of evidential and theoretical perspective. The essays range in topic from the macroscopic (the evolution of social cooperation) to the microscopic (examining genetic data to infer evolutions in brain structure and function), and from the ancient (paleoanthropological reconstructions of hominin cognitive abilities) to the modern (including modern hominin's similarities to our primate cousins). Considered together, these essays constitute a fascinating, detailed look at what makes us human.PMIRC, volume 5

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Figures
  6. Tables
  7. Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Introduction: Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
  11. 2 When Did We Become Human? Evolutionary Perspectives on the Emergence of the Modern Human Mind, Brain, and Culture
  12. 3 What Genetics Can Tell Us about the Origins of the Modern Human Brain
  13. 4 The Primate Mind before Tools, Language, and Culture
  14. 5 Functions of Premotor Cortices: From Motor Control to Social Cognition
  15. 6 The Origins of Human Cooperation from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective
  16. 7 Mimesis Theory Re-Examined, Twenty Years after the Fact
  17. 8 The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language
  18. 9 The Cathedral Model for the Evolution of Human Cognition
  19. 10 Cognition, Behavioral Modernity, and the Archaeological Record of the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic
  20. 11 Rethinking Paleanthropology: A World Queerer Than We Supposed
  21. 12 Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action
  22. 13 The Distinctively-Human Mind: The Many Pillars of Cumulative Culture
  23. 14 Human Culture Is More Than Memes and Transmission
  24. References
  25. Index