The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Deacon, Terrence William
Year of Publication: 1997
Edition: 1st Ed.
Number of Pages: 527
Publisher: W.W. Norton
City: New York
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 9780393317541
Keywords: Brain., Neurolinguistics
Abstract:
This revolutionary book offers fresh answers to longstanding questions of human origins and consciousness. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon leads us on a carefully grounded neurobiological expedition into a view of mind that does not reduce to soulless, clockwork mechanism, but is instead an emergent feature of a universe that is "nascent heart and mind." His book not only provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
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