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The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- “Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers”
- Book Title
- The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved f
- Genre
- Evolution
- ISBN
- 9780738206806
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
- Item Height
- 229 mm
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Subject
- Zoology, Science, Biology
- Item Width
- 153 mm
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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Product Information
A radical and brilliantly argued new theory about the fundamental origins of human intelligence, culture, and society. In this highly original work, one of the world's most distinguished child psychiatrists together with a philosopher at the forefront of ape and child language research present a startling hypothesis-that the development of our higher-level symbolic thinking, language, and social skills cannot be explained by genes and natural selection, but depend on cultural practices learned anew by each generation over millions of years, dating back to primate and prehuman cultures. Furthermore, for the first time, they present their remarkable research revealing the steps leading to symbolic thinking in the life of each new human infant and show that contrary to now-prevailing theories of Pinker, Chomsky, and others, there is no biological explanation that can account for these distinctly human abilities. Drawing from their own original work with human infants and apes, and meticulous examination of the fossil record, Greenspan and Shanker trace how each new species of nonhuman primates, prehumans, and early humans mastered and taught to their offspring in successively greater degrees the steps leading to symbolic thinking. Their revolutionary theory and compelling evidence reveal the true origins of our most advanced human qualities and set a radical new direction for evolutionary theory, psychology, and philosophy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-13
9780738206806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91929227
Product Key Features
Subject
Zoology, Science, Biology
Publication Year
2004
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Publication Name
The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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CRN: 07693718
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