by Derek Bickerton (Author)
How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining research with forty years of writing about language evolution, the author resolves a crucial problem that both biology and cognitive science have ignored: how animal thinking escaped the prison of the here and now.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 07 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 0674724909
ISBN 13: 9780674724907