Product Description: This book is a consequence of the suggestion that a major key to­ ward understanding cognition in any advanced culture is to be found in the relationships between processing orthographies, lan­ guage, and thought. In this book, the contributors attempt to take only the first step, namely to ascertain that there are reliable con­ stancies among the interactions between a given type of writing and specific brain processes...read more

Analyzes the reciprocative relationship between genes in individuals and the production of culture and shows how predictions about genetic evolution within a cultural pattern can be made

Argues that a mutual change in genetics and culture brought about the development of human mental capacity (view table of contents)

Argues that a mutual change in genetics and culture brought about the development of human mental capacity

Product Description: What is the physics of life and why does it matter? The essays in this book probe this question, celebrating modern biology's vibrant dialog with theoretical physics - a scientific adventure in which biological understanding is enriched by physical theory without losing its own inherent traditions and perspectives...read more

Product Description: Pulitzer Prize Winning author Edward O. Wilson contributes two of four selections from Harvard University Press in this anthology of important writings on the evolution of human cognition. In clear, non-technical language, the mind's biological and behavioural roots are traced from their primitive beginnings in our ape-like ancestors to the explosive growth of our modern linguistic-based consciousness...read more

Argues that a mutual change in genetics and culture brought about the development of human mental capacity