The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain write by Terrence W. Deacon. This book was released on 1998-04-17. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
The Symbolic Species Evolved
The Symbolic Species Evolved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Symbolic Species Evolved write by Theresa Schilhab. This book was released on 2012-03-23. The Symbolic Species Evolved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007). In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further steps have had to be taken. The proposed anthology is such an important associate. The contributions are written by a wide variety of scholars each with a unique view on evolutionary cognition and the questions raised by Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition, Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities as well as phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied cognition and knowledge types.
The Symbolic Species
The Symbolic Species - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Symbolic Species write by Terrence William Deacon. This book was released on 1997. The Symbolic Species available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Symbolic Species
The Symbolic Species - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Symbolic Species write by Terrence William Deacon. This book was released on 1997. The Symbolic Species available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the evolution of language from the viewpoint of symbolic reference as opposed to the conventional grammar-based theories
Birdsong, Speech, and Language
Birdsong, Speech, and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birdsong, Speech, and Language write by Johan J. Bolhuis. This book was released on 2013. Birdsong, Speech, and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquisition, considering vocal imitation, auditory learning, an early vocalization phase ("babbling"), the structural properties of birdsong and human language, and the striking similarities between the neural organization of learning and vocal production in birdsong and human speech. After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and evolution of language.
