Human evolution : a neuropsychological perspective

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Label

Human evolution : a neuropsychological perspective

Title remainder

a neuropsychological perspective

Statement of responsibility

John L. Bradshaw

Creator

• Bradshaw, John L., 1940-

Subject

• Biological Evolution
• Brain -- Evolution
• Genetic psychology
• Behavior evolution
• Human evolution
• Neuropsychology
• Hominidae

Language

eng

Summary

"The book attempts to integrate across a wide range of disciplines an evolutionary view of human psychology, with particular reference to language, praxis and aesthetics. A chapter on evolution from the appearance of life to the earliest mammals is followed by one which examines the appearance of primates, hominids and the advent of bipedalism. There follows a more detailed account of the various species of Homo, the morphology and origin of modern H. sapiens sapiens as seen from the archaeological/palaeontological and molecular-biological perspectives. The origins of art and an aesthetic sense in the Acheulian and Mousterian through to the Upper Palaeolithic are seen in the context of the psychology of art. Two chapters on language address its nature and realization centrally and peripherally, the prehistory and neuropsychology of speech, and evidence for speech and/or language in our hominid ancestors. A chapter on tool use and praxis examines such behavior in other species, primate and non-primate, the neurology of praxis and its possible relation to language. Encephalization and the growth of the brain, phylogenetically and ontogenetically, and its relationship to intellectual capacity leads on finally to a consideration of intelligence, social intelligence, consciousness and self-awareness. A final chapter reviews the issues covered. The book, of around 70,000 words of text, includes over 500 references over half of which date from 1994 or later."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

612.8/2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QP376

LC item number

.B6934 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 1998 C-534
• GN 281

NLM item number

B816b 1997