The First Idea : : how Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved From our Early Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
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"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Origin of symbols -- Intellectual growth and transformations of emotions during the course of life -- The early stages of emotional regulation, engagement, and signaling : nonhuman primates and the earliest hominids -- Problem-solving collaborations : chimpanzees and early humans -- Symbols, words, and ideas : Archaic H. sapiens and early moderns -- Representation and the beginning of logic Homo sapiens sapiens -- The engine of evolution -- The origins of language -- The role of emotions in language development -- Emotions and the development of intelligence -- How emotional signaling links emotion and cognition and the brain's subsymbolic and symbolic cortical systems : implications for neuroscience and Piaget's cognitive psychology -- Emotional development derailed : pathways to and from autism -- The developmental levels of groups, societies, and cultures -- A new history of history -- Towards a psychology of global interdependency.
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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: viii, 504 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0738206806 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Shanker, Stuart.
SUBJECTS
Evolutionary psychology.