Editors:
- New perspectives on evolutionary cognition from some of the world’s leading researchers in the field
- Gives a broad introduction to the range of perspectives on evolutionary cognition Includes up-to-date research from the author of
- The symbolic species, Professor Terrence Deacon
Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 6)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Prehistoric and Comparative Connection
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Front Matter
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The Cognitive and Anthropological Connection
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007).
In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further steps have had to be taken. The proposed anthology is such an important associate.
The contributions are written by a wide variety of scholars each with a unique view on evolutionary cognition and the questions raised by Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition, Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities as well as phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied cognition and knowledge types.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Danish School of Education, University of Århus, København, Denmark
Theresa Schilhab
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Aarhus C, Denmark
Frederik Stjernfelt
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, Department of Anthropology, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Terrence Deacon
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Symbolic Species Evolved
Editors: Theresa Schilhab, Frederik Stjernfelt, Terrence Deacon
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2336-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2335-1Published: 26 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9599-0Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2336-8Published: 23 March 2012
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 290
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Neurosciences, Epistemology, Paleontology