Overview

The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines such as cognitive ethnology and evolutionary psychology. The complexity and enormity of this topic is such that it requires the coordinated efforts of many researchers. This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution.Contributors include: A Martin Byers, Philip Chase, Iain Davidson, Francesco d'Errico, Deborah Forster, Gordon G Gallup, Jr. Sean C Hogan, Trenton W Holliday, Harry Jerison, Philip Lieberman, William Noble, April Nowell, Richard Potts, Christopher B Ruff, Katerina Semendeferi, Shirley C Strum, Phillip Tobias, Erik Trinkaus, Anne H Weaver, and Thomas Wynn.

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.... a valuable collection of articles, especially for students and those new to the study of cognitive evolution. I found it both stimulating and enjoyable to read.' ' ... this is a volume with an impressive list of contributors most of whom provide succinct summaries of longer and more detailed studies they have previously published as books or as journal articles. It is useful to have these gathered together in a volume that integrates studies of the fossil and archaeological records very effectively.'--Steven Mithen Cambridge Archaeological Journal (12/01/2002)

.... a valuable collection of articles, especially for students and those new to the study of cognitive evolution. I found it both stimulating and enjoyable to read.' ' ... this is a volume with an impressive list of contributors most of whom provide succinct summaries of longer and more detailed studies they have previously published as books or as journal articles. It is useful to have these gathered together in a volume that integrates studies of the fossil and archaeological records very effectively.'--Steven Mithen Cambridge Archaeological Journal (01/01/0001)

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