The author argues that there are specific turning points in evolution. Structures and
behavioral patterns that evolved in the service of discrete functions sometimes allow for …

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is
conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book …

This work is intended to portray the interrelationship of heredity, individual development, and
the evolution of species in a way that can be understood by nonspecialists. In striving to offer …

“What this book proposes to do,” writes Derek Bickerton,“is to stand the conventional wisdom
of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever enough …

In this chapter, the author discusses a variety of influences that contribute to hate. In general
terms, they include culture and what it transmits to people, social conditions such as difficult …

It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living
things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based …

While some approaches to language evolution have been thoroughly linguistic yet without
becoming particularly social, others have had the opposite problem. Coming out of an …

Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is
known about the evolution of the human capacity for language. Non-human animals …

Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears
inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to …

Is mind a biological phenomenon? Has mind—spirit, soul—evolved, or is it but a mysterious
projection of the biological brain, a soft behavioral program launched off the hardened …