The Symbolic Species - Terrence Deacon
the co-evolution of Language and the human brain
KORTE INHOUD
Human language is perhaps the most distinctive behavioural adaption on our planet. Language evolved in only one species, in only one way - without precedent and without parallel. Drawing on the author's breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, 'The symbolic Species' presents an entirely new explanation of our unique language abiltity.
Terence Deacon vividly demonstrates that the evolution of language did not requite the sudden appearance of a specialized language organ or language instinct, nor did it simply issue from the development of larger or more complex brains. Instead, language reflects the emergence of a new kind of thinking: symbolic thinking. Deacon provides a powerful re-evaluation of what makes thinking with symbols so different from thinking without them, and explains why they are so difficult for other species to understand. Remarkably, and for the first time, Deacon goes on to explain how and why our species crossed the symbolic threshold.
To understand how, we need to examine other s...
Terence Deacon vividly demonstrates that the evolution of language did not requite the sudden appearance of a specialized language organ or language instinct, nor did it simply issue from the development of larger or more complex brains. Instead, language reflects the emergence of a new kind of thinking: symbolic thinking. Deacon provides a powerful re-evaluation of what makes thinking with symbols so different from thinking without them, and explains why they are so difficult for other species to understand. Remarkably, and for the first time, Deacon goes on to explain how and why our species crossed the symbolic threshold.
To understand how, we need to examine other s...
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