Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

25x25cm, xxix,906 pp, PAPERBACK. Contents: Outline of Human Phylogeny; Evolutionary Trees of Apes & Humans from DNA Sequences; Evolution of the Human Brain; Evolution of the Hand & Bipedality; Primitive Communication; Lies, & Ideas; Social Relations, Human Ecology, & the Evolution of Culture: An Exploration of Concepts & Definitions; Social Relations, Communication, & Cognition; On the Evolution of Human Socio-Cultural Systems; The Evolution of Tools & Symbolic Behaviour; A History of the Interpretation of European ' Palaeolithic Art': Magic, Mythogram, & Metaphors for Modernity; Ontogeny: Symbolic Development & Symbolic Evolution; The Role of Ontogenesis in Human Evolution & Development; The Ontogeny & Evolution of the Brain, Cognition, & Language; Early Interaction & Cognitive Skills: Implications for the Acquisition of Culture; The Origins of Language & Thought in Early Childhood; Theories of Symbolization & Culture; Animal Language & Cognition Projects; Symbols & Structures in Language Acquisition; Theoretical Stages in the Prehistory of Grammar; Social & Cognitive Factors in the Historical Elaboration of Writing; Tempo & Mode of Change in the Evolution of Symbolism.…