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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
by Terrence W. Deacon
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The Symbolic Species The Coevolution of Language and the Deacon’s answer is that language coevolved with the human brain specifically to foster symbolic communication And symbolic communication was caused by the unique challenges of a bipedal lifestyle especially sexual selection Bipedalism forced hominids to live in cooperative groups for scavenging hunting and defense against predators The Symbolic Species The Coevolution of Language and the The Symbolic Species The Coevolution of Language and the Brain Kindle edition by Terrence W Deacon Download it once and read it on your Kindle device PC phones or tablets Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading The Symbolic Species The Coevolution of Language and the Brain The Symbolic Species The Coevolution of Language and the The subtitle is a huge hint here language and the brain evolved together Partly humans have a weird brain that allows us to have symbolic language which is largely unattainable by other species But also partly the language we have is suited to our peculiar brains The Symbolic Species The CoEvolution of Language and the Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking from the coevolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed mans newfound access to other peoples thoughts and emotions The Symbolic Species Wikipedia The Symbolic Species Combining perspectives from neurobiology evolutionary theory linguistics and semiotics Deacon proposes that language along with the unique human capacity for symbolic thought coevolved with the brain The Symbolic Species is a multidisclipinary book that at the time of publishing was seen as groundbreaking Book Review The Symbolic Species The CoEvolution of Terrence Deacon The Symbolic Species The CoEvolution of Language and the Brain W W Norton Co New York London 1997 527 pp ISBN 0393038386 hbk pbk Mary FONS I FLEMING Terrence Deacon The Coevolution of Language and Terrence Deacon – The Coevolution of Language and the Brain Dr Terrence Deacon is professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics at University of CaliforniaBerkeley His research combines human evolutionary biology and neuroscience with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition
