First Idea How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans

Name: First Idea How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
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ISBN: 9780306814495

ISBN-10: 0306814498

ISBN-13: 9780306814495

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart Shanker

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In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple, genetically programmed behavior to the complexities of language, symbolic thinking, and culture. The First Idea explores this missing link and offers brilliant new insights into two longstanding questions: How did human beings first create symbols, and how did these abilities evolve and get transmitted across generations over millions of years? Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 2/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction



Origin and Development of Symbols



Origin of Symbols



Intellectual Growth and Transformations of Emotions During the Course of Life



A New Direction for Evolutionary Theory


Introduction



The Early Stages of Emotional Regulation, Engagement, and Signaling: Nonhuman Primates and the Earliest Hominids



Problem-Solving Collaborations: Chimpanzees and Early Humans



Symbols, Words, and Ideas: Archaic Homo sapiens and Early Moderns



Representation and the Beginning of Logic: Homo sapiens sapiens



The Engine of Evolution



The Development of Language and Intelligence


Introduction



The Origins of Language



The Role of Emotions in Language Development



Emotions and the Development of Intelligence



How Emotional Signaling Links Emotion and Cognition and the Brain's Subsymbolic and Symbolic Cortical Systems: Implications for Neuroscience and Piaget's Cognitive Psychology



Emotional Development Derailed: Pathways to and from Autism



The Development of Social Groups


Introduction



The Developmental Levels of Groups, Societies, and Cultures (With Elizabeth Greenspan)



A New History of History



Future Evolution: Toward a Psychology of Global Interdependency


Notes


References


Index


About the Authors