A brief history of the mind : from apes to intellect and beyond /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- When chimpanzees think : the way we were 7 million years ago?
- Upright posture but ape-sized brains : in the woodland between forest and savanna
- Triple startups about 2.5 million years ago : flickering climate, toolmaking, and bigger brains
- Homo erectus ate well : adding more meat to the diet fueled the first out of Africa
- The second brain boom : what kicked in, almost 750,000 years ago?
- Neanderthals and our pre-sapiens ancestors : two-stage toolmaking and what it says about thought
- Homo sapiens without the modern mind : the big brain but no much to show for it
- Structured thought finally appears : the curb-cut principle and emerging higher intellectual function
- From Africa to everywhere : was the still-full-of-bugs prototype what spread around the world?
- How creativity manages the mixups : higher intellectual function and the search for coherence
- Civilizing ourselves : from planting to writing to mind medicine
- What's sudden about the mind's big bang? : the moderns somehow got their act together
- Imagining the house of cards : inventing new levels of organization on the fly
- The future of the augmented mind : a combustible mixture of ignorance and power?