The descent of mind : psychological perspectives on hominid evolution

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Author:

Corballis, Michael C.

ISBN:

9780198524199

9780192632593

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.

Physical Description:

xii, 361 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Contents:

1. Are humans special? A history of psychological perspectives / Michael C. Corballis and Stephen E. G. Lea -- 2. The background to hominid intelligence / Stephen E. G. Lea -- 3. Phylogeny from apes to humans / Michael C. Corballis -- 4. Human cognitive evolution / Richard W. Byrne -- 5. Predicting hominid intelligence from brain size / Michael J. Beran, Kathleen R. Gibson and Duane M. Rumbaugh -- 6. Perception of personality traits and semantic learning in evolving hominids / James E. King, Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- 7. Whatever happened to articulate speech? / Peter F. MacNeilage -- 8. Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages / Merlin Donald -- 9. The role of gesture and mimetic representation in making language the province of speech / Susan Goldin-Meadow and David McNeill -- 10. The evolution of deep social mind in humans / Andrew Whiten -- 11. Handedness, cerebral lateralization, and the evolution of language / Chris McManus.

12. The rise of the metamind / Thomas Suddendorf -- 13. The evolution of a theory of mind / Simon Baron-Cohen -- 14. Beliefs about purpose: on the origins of teleological thought / Deborah Kelemen -- 15. The evolution of certain novel human capacities / Paul Bloom -- 16. Social influences on human assortative mating / Del Thiessen -- 17. On the recent origin of symbolically-mediated language and its implications for psychological science / Andrew Lock.

Subject Term:

Genetic psychology.

Human evolution.

Brain -- Evolution.

Psychology, Comparative.

Added Author:

Corballis, Michael C.

Lea, S. E. G., 1946-

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To most people it seems obvious that there are major mental differences between ourselves and other species, but there is considerable debate over exactly how special our minds are, in what respects, and which were the critical evolutionary events that have shaped us. Some researchers claim language as a solely human, even defining, attribute, while others claim that only humans are truly conscious. These questions have been explored mainly by archaeologists and anthropologists until recently, but this volume aims to show what psychologists have to say on the evolution of mind.The book begins with a thorough overview of what is known of the non-primate mind and its evolution. Following this, an international range of experts discuss in temporal sequence the human mind at various stages of evolution, beginning with the pre-hominids of 20 million years ago and ending with contemporary human behaviour. Accessible to students and researchers alike in psychology, anthropology, evolution, archaeology, and ethology, The Descent of Mind provides a range of provocative answers to the timeless question of what it means to be human.