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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind

Colin Renfrew - 2007 - Anthropology, Prehistoric - No preview available
This book outlines human origins - the growth of farming, the rise of urbanism and the emergence of civilization - on a global scale. It traces the patterns and processes that led human societies in just ten thousand years from small hunter ...

The Sapient Mind: Archaeology Meets Neuroscience

Colin Renfrew, Christopher D. Frith, Lambros Malafouris - 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - No preview available
The turn of the twenty-first century has seen a new era in the cognitive and brain sciences that allows us to address the age-old question of what it means to be human from a whole new range of different perspectives. Our knowledge of the ...

The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter

Fritjof Capra - 1997 - Biological systems - No preview available
Capra argues that at the end of the 20th century we are shifting away from the mechanistic world of Descartes and Newton to a holistic, ecological view. He establishes patterns between ideas from such diverse fields as Buddhism and quantum physics.

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf - 2008 - Brain - No preview available
'We were never born to read' begins Maryanne Wolf in this pathbreaking exploration of how our brains learnt to read. 'No specific genes ever dictated reading's development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with ...

Art and the Brain, Part 1

Joseph Goguen, Erik Myin - 1999 - Art - Limited preview
Science of art - commentary on Ramachandran and Hirstein - Art and the Brain - The Emergence of Art and Language in the Human Brain - Cave Art, autism, and the evolution of the human mind - On aesthetic perception