Opening the stacks
Merlin Donald
1 book · 1991 · non-fiction, cognitive-science, anthropology
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Themes
cultural evolutioncognitive developmentmodes of thoughtsymbolic representationcollective memorybrain and mindcultural stepshuman uniqueness
Key Concepts
external-symbolic-storage7episodic-memory5episodic-culture4generativity3language-evolution3symbolic-invention3representational-systems2encephalization-hypothesis2cognitive-evolution2interdisciplinary-approach2prelinguistic-cognition2bipedalism2semantic-memory2episodic-mind2mimetic-culture2mimetic-controller2theoretic-culture2evolutionary-cognitive-origins1mosaic-cognitive-architecture1symbolic-reference-problem1