THE APE THAT SPOKE Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind

MCCRONE, JOHN

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ISBN 10: 0380713993 ISBN 13: 9780380713998

Published by AVON BOOKS, NY, 1992

Language: English

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Title

THE APE THAT SPOKE Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind

Publisher

AVON BOOKS, NY

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0380713993

ISBN 13

9780380713998

Binding

PAPERBACK

Edition

1ST

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Social Science, Anthropology

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This book tries to view the mind from a single perspective. It is based on the assumption that the human mind must have evolved; that self-consciousness must have a biological basis. It then uses plain language to take the reader through some difficult the origins of language, the evolution of habits of thought, and the "mapping" of the world in the brain which creates awareness. It ends up with the controversial conclusion that the human mind is only a few degrees different from an animal's and that self-consciousness, memory, and higher emotions are all simple language-driven abilities which we pick up as children.

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This exciting evolutionary odyssey, which was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth, interweaves recent advances in linguistics and anthropology and controversially concludes that imagination and higher emotions are language-driven extensions of the animal mind.
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