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More than Nature Needs
Author | : Derek Bickerton |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2014-01-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674728523 |
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How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains, but this remained an intriguing guess--until now. Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing and thinking about language origins, Derek Bickerton convincingly resolves a crucial problem that biology and the cognitive sciences have systematically avoided. Before language or advanced cognition could be born, humans had to escape the prison of the here and now in which animal thinking and communication were both trapped. Then the brain's self-organization, triggered by words, assembled mechanisms that could link not only words but the concepts those words symbolized--a process that had to be under conscious control. Those mechanisms could be used equally for thinking and for talking, but the skeletal structures they produced were suboptimal for the hearer and had to be elaborated. Starting from humankind's remotest past, More than Nature Needs transcends nativist thesis and empiricist antithesis by presenting a revolutionary synthesis that shows specifically and in a principled way how and why the synthesis came about.
More than Nature
Author | : Doris Friedrich,Markus Hirnsperger,Stefan Bauer |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783643912183 |
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The Arctic is often associated with pristine wilderness, natural resources, and climate change. Yet settlements and infrastructure, which have received less attention, play a significant role in Arctic environments. Extractive industries, military activities, and scientific undertakings have driven the expansion of infrastructures. This book presents current research on Northern towns and Arctic and Subarctic infrastructure. It examines historical developments, the shaping of environments, sustainability, future planning, and associated living conditions, mainly from a social science perspective.
More Than Nature Needs
Author | : Edward LeRoy Hart |
Publsiher | : Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015001183287 |
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King Lear Questions Answers
Author | : Coles Notes Staff,William Shakespeare |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1998-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0774037318 |
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Poetical works
Author | : John Dryden |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : IOWA:31858009603303 |
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The Works of John Dryden Poetical works
Author | : John Dryden,Walter Scott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4721535 |
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Report of the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Author | : British Association for the Advancement of Science |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066715692 |
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