The Symbolic Species
The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Ranked #62 in Linguistics
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... more
Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's... more
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