Drawing on the author's breakthrough research, THE SYMBOLIC SPECIES presents an entirely new explanation of our unique language ability. Language evolved in only one species and in only one way - without precedent and without parallel. Terrence Deacon asserts that language evolution did not require the sudden appearance of a specialized language instinct, nor the development of more complex brains. Instead, language reflects a new kind of thinking: symbolic thinking. 'Turns everything we know about language on its head' - Jerome Burne, Sunday Telegraph
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
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978-0-14-026405-0 (9780140264050)
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Terrence Deacon is a world-renowned researcher in neuroscience and evolutionary anthopology at the Harvard Medical School. He teaches at Boston University.
Part 1 Language: the human paradox; a loss for words; symbols aren't simple; outside the brain. Part 2 Brain: The size of intelligence; growing apart; a Darwinian electrician; the talking brain; symbol minds; locating language. Part 3 Co-evolution: and the word became flesh; symbolic origins; a serendipitous mind; such stuff as dreams are made off.
