K. Gibson

Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution

Herausgeber: Ingold, Tim; Gibson, Kathleen R.

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at how humans have evolved complex behaviours such as language and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780521485418
• ISBN-10: 052148541X
• Artikelnr.: 21599440

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Prologue: General introduction: Animal minds, human minds Kathleen
Gibson; A history of speculation on the relation between tools and language
Gordon Hewes; Part I. Word, Sign and Gesture: General introduction:
Relations between visual-gestural and vocal-auditory modalities of
communication Tim Ingold; 1. Human gesture Adam Kendon; 2. When does
gesture become language? Susan Goldwin-Meadow; 3. The emergence of language
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Duane Rumbaugh; 4. A comparative approach to
language parallels Charles Snowdon; Part II. Technological Skills and
Associated Social Behaviors of the Non-Human Primates: Introduction:
Generative interplay between technical capacities, social relations,
imitation and cognition Kathleen Gibson; 5. Capuchin monkeys Elisabetta
Visalberghi; 6. The intelligent use of tools William McGrew; 7. Aspects of
transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees Christophe Boesch; Part III.
Connecting Up The Brain: Introduction: Overlapping neural control of
language, gesture and tool use Kathleen Gibson; 8. Disorders of language
and tool use Daniel Kempler; 9. Sex differences in visuospatial skills Dean
Falk; 10. The unitary hypothesis William H. Calvin; 11. Tool use, language
and social behaviour in relationship to information processing capacities
Kathleen Gibson; Part IV. Perspectives on Development: Introduction: Beyond
neotony and recapitulation Kathleen Gibson; 12. Human language development
and object manipulation Andrew Lock; 13. Comparative cognitive development
Jonas Langer; 14. Higher intelligence, propositional language and culture
as adaptations for planning Sue Parker and Constance Milbrath; Part V.
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives: Introduction: Tools,
techniques and technology Tim Ingold; 15. Early stone industries and
inferences regarding language and cognition Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick;
16. Tools and language in human evolution Iain Davidson and William Noble;
17. Layers of thinking in tool behaviour Thomas Wynn; 18. The
complementation theory of language and tool use Peter Reynolds; 19.
Tool-use, sociality and intelligence Tim Ingold; Epilogue: Technology,
language, intelligence Tim Ingold; Index.