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Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
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Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture draws together studies in archaeology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, genetics, neuroscience, and environmental science to investigate the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture.
Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture draws together studies in archaeology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, genetics, neuroscience, and environmental science to investigate the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture.
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Gary Hatfield is Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Holly Pittman is Bok Family Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator in the Near East Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Contents
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Contributors
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Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword
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Preface
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1 Introduction: The Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
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2. When Did We Become Human? Evolutionary Perspectives on the Emergence of the Modern Human Mind, Brain, and Culture
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3. What Genetics Can Tell Us about the Origins of the Modern Human Brain
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4. The Primate Mind before Tools, Language, and Culture
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5. Functions of Premotor Cortices: From Motor Control to Social Cognition
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6. The Origins of Human Cooperation from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective
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7. Mimesis Theory Re-Examined, Twenty Years after the Fact
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8. The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Protolanguage and Language
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9. The Cathedral Model for the Evolution of Human Cognition
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10. Cognition, Behavioral Modernity, and the Archaeological Record of the Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic
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11. Rethinking Paleoanthropology: A World Queerer Than We Supposed
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12. Human Behavioral Ecology, Optimality, and Human Action
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13. The Distinctively Human Mind: The Many Pillars of Cumulative Culture
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14. Human Culture Is More than Memes and Transmission
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References Cited
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Archaeology; Anthropology; Archaeology; Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics; Ancient Studies
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