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  • The Social Origins of Language

    de Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney ...
    Series series Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Series
    How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • How Monkeys See the World

    Inside the Mind of Another Species

    de Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth ...
    Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition."This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they ... Leer más

    $9.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Primate Societies

    With 46 Contributors

    Edición de Barbara B. Smuts, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Richard W. Wrangham ...
    Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most currentinformation on primate socioecology and its theoretical andempirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioralbiology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very richsource of ideas about other taxa."A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives ofnon-human primates."—Alan Dixson, Nature ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Story of Mankind

    de Hendrik Van Loon ...
    For Hansje and Willem:WHEN I was twelve or thirteen years old, an uncle of mine who gave me my love for books and pictures promised to take me upon a memorable expedition. I was to go with him to the top of the tower of Old Saint Lawrence in Rotterdam. ... Leer más

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  • Louder Than Words

    The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning

    de Benjamin K. Bergen ...
    Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning -- a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else's mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things -- from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Strange Order of Things

    Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

    de Antonio Damasio ...
    From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Cells to Civilizations

    The Principles of Change That Shape Life

    de Enrico Coen ...
    The science of change from cells to cultureCells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself—from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Evolution's Bite

    A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins

    de Peter Ungar ...
    What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human speciesWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances in ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • More than Nature Needs

    Language, Mind, and Evolution

    de Derek Bickerton ...
    The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selection. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but his ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Reflections on the Musical Mind

    An Evolutionary Perspective

    de Jay Schulkin ...
    What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential.In Reflections ... Leer más

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  • Life through Time and Space

    de Wallace Arthur ...
    All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Life through Time and Space brings together the latest discoveries in both biology and astronomy to examine our deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos.A distinctive voice in the growing field ... Leer más

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  • Divided Brains

    The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

    de Lesley J. Rogers, Giorgio Vallortigara, Richard J. Andrew ...
    Asymmetry of the brain and behaviour (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate kingdom and found even in some invertebrate species. A similar basic plan of organisation exists across vertebrates. Summarising the evidence and highlighting research from the last twenty years, the ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD