More Than Nature Needs - Language, Mind, and Evolution

How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing about language evolution, Derek Bickerton resolves a crucial problem that both biology and cognitive science have ignored: how animal thinking escaped the prison of the here and now.

About the author

Derek Bickerton (1926–2018) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Summary

How did humans acquire cognition more powerful than a hunting-gathering primate needed to survive? Combining state-of-the-art research with forty years of writing about language evolution, Derek Bickerton resolves a crucial problem that both biology and cognitive science have ignored: how animal thinking escaped the prison of the here and now.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Bickerton, Bickerton Derek, Derek Bickerton
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2014
• EAN: 9780674724907
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72490-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics