Human evolution : a neuropsychological perspective /
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| Author / Creator: | Bradshaw, John L., 1940- |
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| Imprint: | Hove, East Sussex, UK : Psychology Press, 1997. |
| Description: | xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3164023 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preamble
- I. Evolution to the Advent of the Mammals
- Formation of Universe and Earth
- Appearance of Life
- The Cambrian Explosion of Diverse Life Forms
- The First Chordates and Vertebrates
- The First Tetrapods
- The Earliest Mammals
- Summary and Conclusions
- II. Primates to Hominids and the Advent of Bipedalism
- The Primates
- The Anthropoids
- The Hominid Lineage
- The Advent of Bipedalism
- Obstetrics and the Pelvis
- Summary and Conclusions
- III. Evolution of the Genus Homo
- Homo Habilis
- Homo Erectus
- Archaic Homo sapiens and the Neanderthals
- The Morphology and Origin of Anatomically Modern H
- sapiens sapiens
- Evidence from Molecular Biology
- Migration and Expansion
- Summary and Conclusion
- IV. Art and Prehistory
- Art and Culture of the Mousterian and Acheulian
- The Art of the European Upper Palaeolithic
- The Psychology of Art, Ancient and Recent
- Summary and Conclusions
- V. Language and Communication
- The Coevolution of Genotype and Language
- The Prehistory of Spoken Language
- Language, Speech and Communication
- (How) did Language Evolve? Critical Periods and Speech Perception
- Categorical Perception
- Categorization in Nonhuman Communication
- Language Meditation by a Distributed Network
- Apes and Language
- A View of Language Evolution
- Gesture and Language
- Summary and Conclusions
- VI. The Central and Peripheral Realization of Speech
- Speech and Articulation
- The Supralaryngeal Vocal Tract in Apes and Humans
- The Supralaryngeal Tract in Apes and Neanderthals
- Did Homo habilis Possess Speech-related Areas in the Brain? Speech-related Areas and Aphasia in Homo sapiens sapiens
- Category Specificity and Semantic Representation
- Neuroimaging and Speech Localization
- Summary and Conclusions
- VII. Tool use and Praxis
- Nonhuman Tool Use
- Hominid Tool Use
- Movement, The Frontal-Basal Ganglia Circuits and Praxis
- Apraxia: The Loss of the Ability to Use Tools
- Praxis, Tool Use and Language Evolution: Is a Synthesis Possible? Summary and Conclusions
- VIII. Encephalization and the Growth of the Brain
- The Allometric Ratio
- The Growth of Encephalization in the Fossil Record
- Laminar and Columnar Organization in the Cortex
- Neurogenesis and Brain-Body Growth and Development
- Plastic Reorganization in the Adult Brain
- Whole Object Recognition and "Binding"
- Brain Size and Intellectual Capacity
- Summary and Conclusions
- IX. Intelligence, Social Intelligence, Consciousness and Self Awareness
- The Evolution of Intelligence
- The Theory of Machiavellian Intelligence
- Self-Recognition in Mirrors and Self-Awareness
- Consciousness
- Summary and Conclusions
- X. An Overview
- Postscript
- References
