| Edition |
1st Da Capo Press ed. |
| Description |
viii, 504 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Merloyd Lawrence book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-488) and index. |
| Contents |
Origin of symbols -- Intellectual growth and transformations of emotions during the course of life -- The early stages of emotional regulation, engagement, and signaling : nonhuman primates and the earliest hominids -- Problem-solving collaborations : chimpanzees and early humans -- Symbols, words, and ideas : Archaic H. sapiens and early moderns -- Representation and the beginning of logic Homo sapiens sapiens -- The engine of evolution -- The origins of language -- The role of emotions in language development -- Emotions and the development of intelligence -- How emotional signaling links emotion and cognition and the brain's subsymbolic and symbolic cortical systems : implications for neuroscience and Piaget's cognitive psychology -- Emotional development derailed : pathways to and from autism -- The developmental levels of groups, societies, and cultures -- A new history of history -- Towards a psychology of global interdependency. |
| Subject |
Evolutionary psychology.
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Evolutionary psychology. |
| Added Author |
Shanker, Stuart.
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| ISBN |
0738206806 alkaline paper |
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