Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Published on 1. January 1997
Book
Hardback
935 pages
978-0-19-852153-2 (ISBN)
Description
This work examines fundamental questions concerning the origins and nature of human symbolic abilities. The book is about the evolution of humanity - language, art, tools, and communication, covering a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, psychology, primatology, paleontology, and archaeology. The various topics are dealt with by experts from each field, in articles that provide summaries that are scholarly but will also be comprehensive to the many people (both lay and professional) who are interested in human evolution. This work should be of interest to postgraduates and 3rd year undergraduates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones and numerous line figures, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852153-2 (9780198521532)
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Content
1: Photogallery of fossil skulls. 2: Bernard Campbell: An outline of human phylogeny. 3: Peter J. Waddel and David Penny: Evolutionary trees of apes and humans. 4: Ralph Holloway: Evolution of the human brain. 5: Mary Marzke: Evolution of the hand and bipedality. 6: Primate communication, lies, and ideas. 7: Tim Ingold: Social relations, human ecology, and the evolution of culture. 8: Andrew Lock and Kim Styles: Social relations, communication, and cognition. 9: Randall White: On the evolution of human socio-cultural systems. 10: Thomas Wynn: The evolution of tools and symbolic behaviour. 11: Margaret Conkey: Prehistoric art. 12: Photogallery of contemporary hunter-gatherer rock art. 13: Christopher Sinha: The role of ontogenesis in human evolution and development. 14: Kathleen Gibson: The ontogeny and evolution of the brain, cognition, and language. 15: David Messer and Glyn Collis: Early interaction and cognitive skills. 16: George Butterworth: The origins of language and thought in early childhood. 17: Christopher Sinha: Theories of symbolization and development. 18: J. Gavin Bremner: Children's drawings and the evolution of art. 19: Map gallery of the extant human languages. 20: Margaret Deuchar: Spoken language and sign language. 21: Gordon W. Hewes: A history of the study of language origins. 22: Andrew Lock and Michael Colombo: Cognitive abilities in a comparative perspective. 23: Carolyn Ristau: Animal language and cognition projects. 24: Carolyn Johnson, Henry Davis, and Marlys Macken: Symbols and structures in language acquisition. 25: Mary LeCron Foster: The reconstruction of the evolution of human spoken language. 26: Leonard Rolfe: Theoretical stages in the prehistoy of grammar. 27: David Barton and Mary Hamilton: Social and cognitive factors in the historical elaboration of writing. 28: Charles R. Peters: Tempo and mode of change in the evolution of symbolism