THE FIRST IDEA: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
Greenspan, Stanley I. & Stuart G. Shanker
Language: English
Published by Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006
- Softcover
- Used
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(2006), 504pp, slight soiing & shelfwear to cover, contents clean.
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- Title
- THE FIRST IDEA: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
- Author
- Greenspan, Stanley I. & Stuart G. Shanker
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0306814498
- ISBN 13
- 9780306814495
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About the Author
Stuart G. Shanker, D.Phil., is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology at York University, in Toronto. At the forefront of research into ape and child language, his acclaimed books include Apes, Language and the Human Mind (with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Talbot Taylor) and Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of AI. Dr. Shanker's critiques of genetic determinist theories of human development have been the subject of television specials, including The Today Show, Discovery, and The Pamela Wallin Show.
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