By Theresa Schilhab,Frederik Stjernfelt,Terrence Deacon
This anthology is a compilation of the simplest contributions from Symbolic Species meetings I, II (which happened in 2006, 2007).
In 1997 the yank anthropologist Terrence Deacon released The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the mind. The booklet is broadly thought of a seminal paintings within the topic of evolutionary cognition. even though, Deacons publication used to be step one – extra steps have needed to be taken. The proposed anthology is such a big associate.
The contributions are written by means of a wide selection of students every one with a different view on evolutionary cognition and the questions raised through Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the foundation of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition, Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities in addition to phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied cognition and information varieties.
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