Origins of the Modern Mind

Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

Merlin Donald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

1993
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-64484-7 (ISBN)

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This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to A.I., presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.

This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.

Merlin Donald is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

Prologue PART 1: The Need for a Theory of Cognitive Evolution Mental Architecture as an Emergent Phenomenon Culture as Evidence for Cognitive Structure The Organization of This Book PART 2:

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.5.1993
Zusatzinfo	17 line illustrations, 5 tables
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-674-64484-0 / 0674644840
ISBN-13	978-0-674-64484-7 / 9780674644847
Zustand	Neuware