How the mind works
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Pinker, Steven
Year of Publication: 1999
Number of Pages: xii, 660 p
Publisher: W.W. Norton
City: New York
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 0393318486 (pbk.)
Keywords: Cognitive neuroscience, Human evolution, Natural selection, Neuropsychology, Psychology
Abstract:
Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works explores the evolutionary past and socially influenced present state of the human mind: thought, reflex, coordination, cognition, artistic ability. He examines the complex fortunes of natural selection that allowed us to survive and flourish as a species, all as a function of what was in our heads.Standard equipment -- Thinking machines -- Revenge of the nerds -- The mind's eye -- Good ideas -- Hotheads -- Family values -- The meaning of life
Notes:
1954Steven Pinkerill. ; 25 cmOriginally published: c1997"First published as a Norton paperback 1999"--T.p. verso
Label: 1997
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