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Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution

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ISBN-10: 052148541X

ISBN-13: 9780521485418

Edition: 1994

Authors: Kathleen R. Gibson, Tim Ingold

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The question addressed by this volume is how human beings have evolved as creatures who can make and use more complex tools, communicate in more complex ways, and engage in more complex forms of social life, than any other species in the animal kingdom. The topics explored include the parallels among speech, manual gesture and other models of communication; a comparison of the tool-using skills and imitative abilities of humans and nonhuman primates; the neurological links among the cognitive processes involved in language, gesture and tool use; how linguistic and technical capacities merge together in processes of cognitive development; and a discussion of what the archaeological record…    
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Book details

List price: $118.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/27/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.76" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Preface
Prologue: General introduction: Animal minds, human minds
A history of speculation on the relation between tools and language
Word, Sign and Gesture: General introduction: Relations between visual-gestural and vocal-auditory modalities of communication
Human gesture
When does gesture become language?
The emergence of language Sue
A comparative approach to language parallels
Technological Skills and Associated Social Behaviors of the Non-Human Primates: Introduction: Generative interplay between technical capacities, social relations, imitation and cognition
Capuchin monkeys
The intelligent use of tools
Aspects of transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees
Connecting Up The Brain: Introduction: Overlapping neural control of language, gesture and tool use
Disorders of language and tool use
Sex differences in visuospatial skills
The unitary hypothesis
Tool use, language and social behaviour in relationship to information processing capacities
Perspectives on Development: Introduction: Beyond neotony and recapitulation
Human language development and object manipulation
Comparative cognitive development
Higher intelligence, propositional language and culture as adaptations for planning
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives: Introduction: Tools, techniques and technology
Early stone industries and inferences regarding language and cognition
Tools and language in human evolution
Layers of thinking in tool behaviour
The complementation theory of language and tool use
Tool-use, sociality and intelligence
Epilogue: Technology, language, intelligence
Index